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All tagged african diaspora
In Writing to Save a Life, John Edgar Wideman searches for Louis Till, father of iconic, young Civil Rights martyr Emmett Till, himself executed by the Army ten years before his son’s murder via lynching in 1955. The result is a searing conversation between generations, the living and the dead, fathers and sons.
In House of Lords and Commons, Ishion Hutchinson returns to the difficult beauty of the Jamaican landscape with remarkable lyric precision, holding his world at an astonishing angle: from the violence of the seventeenth-century English Civil War as refracted through a mythic sea wanderer, right down to the dark interior of love.
Zadie Smith presents her fifth novel, Swing Time, a fluid meditation, by way of a cross-racial relationship between two female protagonists, on race, class, geopolitics, dance, storytelling, and history as they manifest in London, New York, and West Africa.
In Black and British, David Olusoga reveals the extraordinarily long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa, drawing on new genetic and genealogical research, original records, expert testimony, and contemporary interviews to take readers through a vital and shared history.
In Habeas Viscus, Alexander Weheliye studies the centrality of race to notions of the human, developing a theory of “racializing assemblages” that traces how race as a set of sociopolitical processes disciplines humanity, writ large, into full humans, not-quite-humans, and nonhumans.
