Chapter II Going Through The Motions Movement, Metahistory, and the Spectacle of Suffering in Teju Cole’s Open City”[L]iterature, like psychoanalysis, is interested in the complex relation between knowing and not knowing.”Cathy Caruth”And above all beware, my body and my soul too, beware of crossing your arms in the sterile attitude of a spectator, because life […]
1.2 The Extranationality of African LiteratureAfrican literature has often been defined in terms of national or nationalist literature and interpreted as a response to either colonialism, nation-building, post-independence disillusionment, or globalization. A lasting theoretical contribution to this mode of thinking is Fredric – Jameson’s much debated “Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism” (1986)
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Chapter I Introduction – Writing Race in the Moment of Afropolitanism”We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another, as if we were one single tribe.”T’Challa”Whatever of good may
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Chapter 31 When Boo Radley shuffled to his feet, light from the livingroom windows glistened on his forehead. Every move he made was uncertain, as if he were not sure his hands and feet could make proper contact with the things he touched. He coughed his dreadful raling cough, and was so shaken he had
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Chapter 30“Mr. Arthur, honey,” said Atticus, gently correcting me. “Jean Louise, this is Mr. Arthur Radley. I believe he already knows you.”If Atticus could blandly introduce me to Boo Radley at a time like this, well—that was Atticus.Boo saw me run instinctively to the bed where Jem was sleeping, for the same shy smile crept
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Chapter 29Aunt Alexandra got up and reached for the mantelpiece. Mr. Tate rose, but she declined assistance. For once in his life, Atticus’s instinctive courtesy failed him: he sat where he was.Somehow, I could think of nothing but Mr. Bob Ewell saying he’d get Atticus if it took him the rest of his life. Mr.
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CHAPTER 28 The weather was unusually warm for the last day of October. We didn’t even need jackets. The wind was growing stronger, and Jem said it might be raining before we got home. There was no moon. The street light on the corner cast sharp shadows on the Radley house. I heard Jem laugh
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Chapter 27Things did settle down, after a fashion, as Atticus said they would. By the middle of October, only two small things out of the ordinary happened to two Maycomb citizens. No, there were three things, and they did not directly concern us—the Finches—but in a way they did.The first thing was that Mr. Bob
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Chapter 26School started, and so did our daily trips past the Radley Place. Jem was in the seventh grade and went to high school, beyond the grammar-school building; I was now in the third grade, and our routines were so different I only walked to school with Jem in the mornings and saw him at
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