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...Theodore Martin Serpell C. Namwali , Seven Modes of Uncertainty Cambridge : Harvard UP , 2014 , pp. 408, Hardcover, $49.95 . Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 C. Namwali Serpell's Seven Modes of Uncertainty is, among other things, a bravura performance. I do...

...Christine Okoth Abstract Through readings of two novels that feature hydroelectric facilities—Peter Abrahams's A Wreath for Udomo and Namwali Serpell's The Old Drift —this article demonstrates how each text grapples in very different ways with the tensions between extractive infrastructures...

... nations, Christine Okoth explains how those opposed to European modernity became tragically aware of this dependency. The novels that unfold the logic of her argument—Peter Abrahams's A Wreath for Udomo and Namwali Serpell's The Old Drift —cover the period from the novel's (postmodern) break from...

..., Remainder 's reenactments mobilize mimesis in service of what C. Namwali Serpell calls “a will to certainty—a desire to see patterns—bestirred by the experiential vibrations of uncertainty” ( 247 ). The narrator's impulse to manage the overwhelming excess of a shattered world “down to the last details...

... and reflection, according to theorists like Nussbaum, whereas for Butler and others ethical self-restraint is developed through immersive experience of the restrictive force of discursive paradigms instantiated by novel representation. C. Namwali Serpell aligns herself with neither pole but still relies upon...

... a reinterpretation of Hamlet ”; “It's a masterpiece”; and so on (324–27). The speakers of these assessments are all clichés rendered as individuals, including a “prodigal son,” “a hooker with a heart of gold,” and a “substituting big black guy when really meaning to say nigger ” (326–27). As C. Namwali Serpell...

..., it is imagined to persist, in Anderson's rephrasing of Walter Benjamin, as a “sociological organism moving calendrically through homogenous empty time” ( 26 ); third, its animating spirit, so to speak, is sovereignty. 4 I am drawing upon the work of critics such as Caroline Levine, Namwali Serpell...

... . Schoene Berthold . “ Cosmo-Kitsch vs. Cosmopoetics .” Review of Contemporary Fiction 32 . 3 ( 2012 ): 105 – 13 . Seltzer Mark . The Official World . Durham, NC : Duke UP , 2016 . Serpell C. Namwali . Seven Modes of Uncertainty . Cambridge, MA : Harvard UP , 2014...

... touch on the thorny issue raised by Namwali Serpell in “The Banality of Empathy,” in which she warns that a certain kind of “empathy model of art can bleed too easily into the relishing of suffering by those who are safe from it . . . it has imposed upon readers and viewers the idea that they can...