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Independent Women Romance, Return, and Pan-African Feminism in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah

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‎”Since I must not all the same allow you to look at the future through rose coloured glasses, you should know that what is arising, what one has not yet seen to its final consequences […] is racism, about which you have yet to hear the last word. Voilà!”‎‎Jacques Lacan‎‎”The desire of the text (the […]

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In the Swirl of Other People’s Stories

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Toward an Ethics of Listening‎‎Benjamin develops his Angel of History – the historical materialist view of history – apropos the dominant historicism of his time, which not only claims to understand the past “the way it really was” but naturally sympathizes with the victor’s story (2003: 391). Notably, while often being attentive to the histories

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