Racial Identity

‎ A Painful Notion of Time Conveying Black Temporality in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing

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“History clings to our skin. Somehow we must remember that we remember differently.”‎‎Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi‎‎”One must return to the site. Detour is not a useful ploy unless it is nourished by return: not a return to the dream of origin […] but a return to the point of entanglement [point d’intrication], from which one was […]

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‎”True from Experience”: Reception and the Realness of Racialization

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‎Writing about the 19th-century realist novel in The Bourgeois, Franco Moretti argues that “description as a form was not neutral at all: its effect was to inscribe the present so deeply in the past that alternatives became simply unimaginable” (93). One could argue that Americanah employs realism in an effort to document the facticity and

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