The Sceptic and the Sweetheart(beach read)
I HAVE A FATAL flaw.I like to think we all do. Or at least that makes it easier for me […]
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Forgive Your Mother? Memory, Redemption, and the Sense of an Ending
Homegoing exemplifies how the history of institutionalized racism scripts Black American lives like a preordained fate similar, but also crucially
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“The Gnarled Fingers of Fate”: Curse Temporalities and the Question of Agency
In 1913, W.E.B. Du Bois commissioned the artist Meta Fuller to produce a sculpture in celebration of the 50th anniversary
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“An Accumulation of Time”: Writing Time as History
Homegoing is not primarily invested in aptly conveying the horrors of chattel slavery. Instead, the novel aims to capture a
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The Other Problem of History: What Cannot Be Represented
As Dalley states in his study of the postcolonial historical novel, “just as contests over the meaning of history forced
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The Problem of History: Historiography’s Imperial Legacies
Two-thirds into Gyasi’s debut novel, a middle-aged history teacher named Yaw finds himself questioned by a class of schoolboys. The
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Historical Fiction Is “Having a Moment”
Listing Yaa Gyasi, Yvonne Owuor, Colson Whitehead, Chimamanda Adichie, and Peter Kimani as examples, historian Dan Magaziner notes in an
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A Painful Notion of Time Conveying Black Temporality in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing
“History clings to our skin. Somehow we must remember that we remember differently.”Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi”One must return to the site.
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This Shared Space of Africanness”: The Hair Salon as Afropolitan Heterotopia
Americanah is a diasporic novel that explicitly negotiates different Black epistemologies. While acceding to the constitutive force of an afterlife
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“An Unapologetic Love Story”: Adichie’s Gendered Romance with Africa
“An Unapologetic Love Story”: Adichie’s Gendered Romance with AfricaAdichie herself has called Americanah an “unapologetic” love story, and it is
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