Writing about the 19th-century realist novel in The Bourgeois, Franco Moretti argues that “description as a form was not neutral […]
”True from Experience”: Reception and the Realness of Racialization Read Post »
Reading for RaceBoth in terms of style and content, the Washington Times opinion piece resembles Ifemelu’s successful race blog in
You Can’t Write an Honest Novel About Race in This Country Read Post »
”Since I must not all the same allow you to look at the future through rose coloured glasses, you should
Toward an Ethics of ListeningBenjamin develops his Angel of History – the historical materialist view of history – apropos the
In the Swirl of Other People’s Stories Read Post »
Blackness in Diaspora TimeThe ambiguity of its metahistorical purport notwithstanding, Open City provides a staunch critique of totalizing aspirations of
Voices Cut Out of the Past Into the Present” Read Post »
Metahistory and the Circling Movement of MelancholiaCompared to the other novels I discuss in this book, Open City addresses the
“To Experience the Pain Afresh” Read Post »
With its vast array of historico-ontological and metaphorical connotations, movement can easily be identified as a master trope of the
”To Trace Out a Story”: Narrating Movement and the Movement of Narrative
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Chapter II Going Through The Motions Movement, Metahistory, and the Spectacle of Suffering in Teju Cole’s Open City”[L]iterature, like psychoanalysis,
Objectively, the global moment of Afropolitanism affords a greater visibility to people of African descent, be it in the world
Conclusion: The Challenges of Afropolitan World Making Read Post »
argues that Black culture and identity have been quite thoroughly investigated in spatial terms, focusing on notions such as dispersal
Making black history (CHAPTER 1.3) Read Post »
