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John Edgar Wideman’s ‘Writing to Save a Life’

Nov 30

Nov 30 John Edgar Wideman’s ‘Writing to Save a Life’

Alvan Azinna Ikoku

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.

Alexander Weheliye’s ‘Habeas Viscus’

Aug 20

Aug 20 Alexander Weheliye’s ‘Habeas Viscus’

Alvan Azinna Ikoku

Literary Theory

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.