Published: 2024-03-19

Racial Conscription and Its Limits

Antinomies of Race in Teju Cole’s Novels

Brenda Tan

1–18

Abstract

This essay argues that relations between race, blackness, and class in
Teju Cole’s novels Open City (2011) and Tremor (2023) are mobilized...

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Echoes of Empire

Unveiling Colonial Tendencies in Salman Rushdie’s Victory City

Madhurima Nayak
Abstract

This paper attempts to explore the representation of the Vijayanagara Empire and colonial tendencies in Salman Rushdie’s historical novel...

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New African Diaspora Modes of Self Writing

Memory, Racialization, and Autofictionality in Tope Folarin’s A Particular Kind of Black Man

Sakiru Adebayo

1–20

Abstract

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...

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