Voices Cut Out of the Past Into the Present”
Blackness in Diaspora TimeThe ambiguity of its metahistorical purport notwithstanding, Open City provides a staunch critique of totalizing aspirations of mastery, whether in relation to historical discourse, temporality, space, or through these theme’s metaphorical amalgamation: movement. Repeatedly, Julius is shown as failing in his attempts at mastery, feigning a sense of coherence he cannot quite […]
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