A book floated down the Amper River. A boy jumped in, caught up to it, and held it in his right hand. He grinned. He stood waist-deep in the icy, Decemberish water. “How about a kiss, Saumensch?” he said. The surrounding air was a lovely, gorgeous, nauseating cold, not to mention the concrete ache of […]
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The Confrontation: Marriage, Loyalty, and Betrayal“It’s between her and Roy. They are the ones married.”“He has been gone five years,” I said, calculating the **long-term incarceration** timeline. “And we thought he had about seven more to go.”“But he’s out now,” Big Roy said, emphasizing the **legal marriage** bond. “Young people don’t respect the institution. But
Listing Yaa Gyasi, Yvonne Owuor, Colson Whitehead, Chimamanda Adichie, and Peter Kimani as examples, historian Dan Magaziner notes in an article on Africa Is a Country that historical fiction “has been having a bit of a moment recently, especially among authors from the African continent and its diaspora” (2017: para. 1). Confirming this, Lizzy Attree
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With its vast array of historico-ontological and metaphorical connotations, movement can easily be identified as a master trope of the Black Diaspora, be it the forced movements and removals of colonialism and transatlantic enslavement, the northbound movements of the Underground Railroad, the Great Migration, Post-war emigration from the colonies, or the complex flows of contemporary
”To Trace Out a Story”: Narrating Movement and the Movement of Narrative
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