Published: 2024-03-19
Articles
Racial Conscription and Its Limits
Antinomies of Race in Teju Cole’s Novels
Abstract
This essay argues that relations between race, blackness, and class in
Teju Cole’s novels Open City (2011) and Tremor (2023) are mobilized...
Literature and the Advancement of Cultural and Intellectual Modernity in Africa and the United States
Daniel Simon in Conversation with Chibueze Darlington Anuonye
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In this conversation, Daniel Simon and Chibueze Darlington Anuonye discuss the role literature plays in the advancement of the intellectual and...
Narrating Fractures
Teaching Notes on Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing
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Yaa Gyasi’s acclaimed 2016 debut novel, Homegoing, has significantly contributed to African and African...
Byomkesh Bakshi’s Calcutta
Crime and Detection in Saradindu Bandyopadhyay's The Menagerie (1954)
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Like the social novel in Bengal, Detective literature, a popular branch of fiction amongst the burgeoning middle classes, originated with the...
Echoes of Empire
Unveiling Colonial Tendencies in Salman Rushdie’s Victory City
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This paper attempts to explore the representation of the Vijayanagara Empire and colonial tendencies in Salman Rushdie’s historical novel...
New African Diaspora Modes of Self Writing
Memory, Racialization, and Autofictionality in Tope Folarin’s A Particular Kind of Black Man
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In this paper, I argue that the use of autofiction in the works of contemporary African writers in America can be understood broadly as a new...
An African Filmmaker's Journey Through Race, Art, and the Divide Between Two Continents
AbstractThis essay chronicles the personal and professional journey of an African filmmaker navigating the intersections of race, identity, and artistic...
Post-Memory and Dispossession
The Expendables of Northeast India in Siddhartha Deb’s The Point of Return
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Anglophone literature from Northeast India delineates the experiences of marginalisation and violence that have marred the region for decades....