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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Teju Cole"”.
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Black Bodies in the Open City: Precarity and Belonging in the work of Teju Cole
… attempts to read Nigerian-American writer Teju Cole’s fiction and essays as sustained demonstrations of precarity, as theorised by Judith Butler in Precarious Life (2004). Though never directly cited by Cole, Butler’s articulation of a shared condition of bodily vulnerability and …
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Waiting for the Miraculous: An Essay on Patience in American Literature
… Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, Annie Dillard, and Teju Cole. The way in which these authors portray object relations denotes a form of patience in which one’s personal longings, contained in physical things, aspire for universal understanding.</p>
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Windows on the World: The Aesthetics of Difference in Neoliberal New York
… Véréna Paravel and J.P. Sniadecki; and writers Teju Cole, Edwidge Danticat, and Joseph O’Neill.</p>
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The white saviour complex in three contemporary American novels
… Complex’ became popular when Nigerian-American Teju Cole criticised a polarising documentary, Kony 2012, in a series of social media posts. Cole argues that the complex allows white saviours to be lauded for showing support to poor Africans while ignoring the structural, systemic and often …
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'AS VIVID AS BLOOD IN A SINK': (RE)READING QUEERNESS AND REPRESSION IN TEJU COLE'S OPEN CITY
<p>Teju Cole’s <em>Open City </em>(2011) is an exemplar work of contemporary fiction. For its complex representation of subjectivity, hypnotic narrative tone, and global political scope, the novel<em> </em>has been praised by readers and critics alike. Julius, the text’s first-person narrator, …
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Writing Away: Old Affinities and New Itineraries in Contemporary African Writing
… of identity in the works of Petina Gappah, Teju Cole, Jamal Mahjoub, E. C. Osondu, and Nthikeng Mohlele, with a focus on re-negotiations of existing affiliative tendencies in African literary practices. While the chapters on Cole and Mahjoub emphasize strategic itineracy and ‘critical …
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On Foot: Pathways Through Contemporary Literature
… how texts by W. G. Sebald, Iain Sinclair, and Teju Cole engage with interdisciplinary questions of movement, personal identity, the philosophy of history, and place. Situating these works within the emerging critical field of “walking studies,” I argue that contemporary walking narratives …
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A Study of Constellational Novel Form
… (2001–2020) by Jacqueline Rose, W. G. Sebald, Teju Cole, Lisa Robertson, and Olga Tokarczuk. Throughout, I attend to how the formal relationality of these novels entails further questions of ethical relationality. This dissertation seeks to clarify these questions by situating them in terms of …