Published: 2024-03-19
Articles
Racial Conscription and Its Limits
Antinomies of Race in Teju Cole’s Novels
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AbstractThis essay argues that relations between race, blackness, and class in
Teju Cole’s novels Open City (2011) and Tremor (2023) are mobilized...
Echoes of Empire
Unveiling Colonial Tendencies in Salman Rushdie’s Victory City
Abstract
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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AbstractIn 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...