In the Swirl of Other People’s Stories
Toward an Ethics of ListeningBenjamin develops his Angel of History – the historical materialist view of history – apropos the […]
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Voices Cut Out of the Past Into the Present”
Blackness in Diaspora TimeThe ambiguity of its metahistorical purport notwithstanding, Open City provides a staunch critique of totalizing aspirations of
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“To Experience the Pain Afresh”
Metahistory and the Circling Movement of MelancholiaCompared to the other novels I discuss in this book, Open City addresses the
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”To Trace Out a Story”: Narrating Movement and the Movement of Narrative
With its vast array of historico-ontological and metaphorical connotations, movement can easily be identified as a master trope of the
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Chapter II Going Through The Motions Movement, Metahistory, and the Spectacle of Suffering in Teju Cole’s Open City
Chapter II Going Through The Motions Movement, Metahistory, and the Spectacle of Suffering in Teju Cole’s Open City”[L]iterature, like psychoanalysis,
Conclusion: The Challenges of Afropolitan World Making
Objectively, the global moment of Afropolitanism affords a greater visibility to people of African descent, be it in the world
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Making black history (CHAPTER 1.3)
argues that Black culture and identity have been quite thoroughly investigated in spatial terms, focusing on notions such as dispersal
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Making black history (CHAPTER 1.2)
1.2 The Extranationality of African LiteratureAfrican literature has often been defined in terms of national or nationalist literature and interpreted
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Making black history (CHAPTER 1)
Chapter I Introduction – Writing Race in the Moment of Afropolitanism”We all know the truth: more connects us than separates
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SUMMER 1980
SUMMER 1980IN THE MONTHS AFTER LEARNING SHE WOULD BE JOINING THE ASTRO-naut corps, Joan did three things.First, she gave notice