... glimpse of a writer's reflection on his work and the literary world. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Nuruddin Farah Somali diaspora African literature and literary prizes Crossbones Hiding in Plain Sight b2 Interview “Dreaming...

... is associate professor at the Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, with a joint appointment in the English Department. He has published widely in African and postcolonial literatures and has held fellowships at the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University; the Harry Ransom Center...

... professor of English and comparative literary studies at Northwestern University. He works in philosophical aesthetics, British and American literary modernisms, and African American literature and film. He has just completed a book manuscript entitled The Language of Wanting: Aesthetic Modernism...

... Moten are the authors of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study. Harney teaches at Singapore Management University, and Moten teaches at the University of California, Riverside. Editor of Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, poet/performance art- ist Duriel E. Harris...

... at the Center for African Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Between 1989–1992, he was special assistant to the late prime minister, Michael Manley, of Jamaica and was a common- wealth observer to the 1994 election in South Africa. Susan Buck-Morss­ is distinguished professor...

... of the housework, with the assistance of my brother and the father” (49). They set the stage for their daughter to pursue her “work” as an artist. Gwendolyn Brooks's artistry was first nurtured in family and community. In 1950, Brooks became the first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize. At the time...

... University Press, 2010. Mack, Edward. Manufacturing Modern Japanese Literature: Publishing, Prizes, and the Ascription of Literary Value. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2010. Miron, Dan. From Continuity to Contiguity: Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking. Stanford Studies in Jewish History...

... and (potentially) of continuing subjugation—the acceptance of some being more equal than others, as Orwell put it. Are Asians different from Africans? Are the English different from the French, the Koreans from the Japanese, the Australians from the Canadians, and if so, in what sense are they different...

... of India in Soviet Russia: Mainsprings of the Communist Movement in the East . Moscow : Progress . Popescu Monica . 2020 . At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Prashad Vijay . 2007 . The Darker Nations...

...-empire/ . Thorne Christian . Forthcoming . “ Deconstruction Is America; or, Derrida’s Empire .” Thornton John . 1992 . Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Webb Stephen Saunders . 1995 . Lord Churchill’s Coup...

... Spirits (1979). Recent work has focused on questions of “iden- tity” as an operative term in intellectual life and on issues involving language in American fiction. Anthony Bogues was, in 2006, a distinguished fellow at the Center for African Studies, University of Cape Town...

... is associate professor of comparative literature at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Grammatology and Literary Modernity in Turkey (2011), the recipient of the Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book, and the coeditor (with Özge Serin) of a recent special issue of boundary 2...

... . “ Nudging: A Very Short Guide .” Journal of Consumer Policy 37 , no. 4 : 583 – 88 . Underwood Ted . 2019 . Distant Horizons: Digital Evidence and Literary Change . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Valentin Wilson . 2019 . “ Farah Jasmine Griffin Chairs New African...

...-first century has begun to define a new phase. From the start the American people has been heterogeneous: the founding settlements included colonists from several European nations who imposed themselves upon a Native American indigenous population and who imported many enslaved Africans. Through...

... and the newspaper New Masses, among such conflicted Communists as his mentor Richard Wright, who combined African American nationalism with hope-filled support of the Soviet Union.24 Both were “intellectuals” to 22. Norman Mailer, contribution to “Our Country and Our Culture,” Partisan Review, May– June...

... gen- eral education course on American literature that made room for it by omit- ting Moby-Dick. Toni Morrison has certainly replaced Ellison as the most taught African American novelist, but I don’t know that even Beloved has displaced Invisible Man as the most taught novel. It is striking...

...- zines. Only the legacy of American apartheid could give birth to such an opinion’’ (95). Thomas acknowledges Thomas Jefferson as the specter haunting Extraordinary Measures when he says that ‘‘while not necessarily isolated from the ‘mainstream’ literary scene, African American writers have...

... Companion to African-American­ Literature, ed. William L. Andrews, Trudier Harris, and Frances Smith Foster (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001). Of course, Dunbar’s sense of being the victim of his own success, summed up aptly in his poem “Sympathy,” propelled by its famous, haunting refrain “I...

... that [t]he ties of geography are easier to see, Ng g insists that [a] shared experience of the past; a shared hope for the future: these then are the most enduring links that bind the African peoples on the continent and in diaspora with those of Asia (La Guma 1978: 38 40). The speech 15. Despite...

... who previously lived together or formed an ethnic group In this sense, we can speak of the ‘‘African diaspora’’ as one of these phenomena of mas- 6736 boundary 2 29:3 / sheet 96 of 265 sive displacement that is close to us. But the term has...