“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 notion of race much less overtly. To a large extent, this is due to Julius’s self-fashioning as a “rooted cosmopolitan” apropos Anthony Kwame Appiah, as we see him repeatedly wrestle with and bristle at various […]
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