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Brilliant work by Christine Okoth on migrant remittances in post-independence African fiction. Open access!
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Zoë Wicomb, 1948—2025, RIP Zoë Wicomb, the pioneering South African author and academic, has died in her home of Glasgow, Scotland. She was 77 years old. Born in the then Cape Province, Wicomb was raised in Namaqualand, then at...

Zoë Wicomb's passing is a monumental loss. She was one of the very best writers working today:
acknowledged yet still underrated on the world stage. Her writing has an acuity, power, wit, grace, and intellect that is most rare. She was brilliant.

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The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa [Jackson, Jeanne-Marie] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa

“The Letter of the Law in J.E. Casely Hayford’s West Africa” is now available for Amazon pre-order! I will even paste the first two blurbs here to entice you, upping by about 100% my not-very-impressive marketing game.

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Back with another fantastic @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode! I chat with the brilliant @rosecasey.bsky.social about her book Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law and Postcolonial Style (Fordham UP, 2025). Please listen in & check out this fantastic book

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The Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms Abstract. Realism is an artistic practice that aims to faithfully represent reality. Historically, it has been practiced across different media, from early

Margarita Vaysman & I have been working on this for the past 5 (!) years, but it's finally done- the online version is up and the hardcover should be out later this month! Welcome to the Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms, feat. 41 chapters and beautiful cover art: academic.oup.com/edited-volum... 🎉

The Global African Novel AbstractThe global African novel, as a genre, describes realist fictions that map contemporary migrations of the African diaspora in the late twentieth and

Full online publication of the Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms out now! I have a chapter on how The Global African Novel theorizes realism and the violence of global capitalism: academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

Evolutionary Aestheticism in Victorian Culture Cambridge Core - English Literature 1830-1900 - Evolutionary Aestheticism in Victorian Culture

The TLS calls this lovely book by my lovely former colleague Lindsay Wilhelm "elegant and compact"
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Congrats and can't wait to read it!

Animist Poetics

Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature is in print! The paperback will be out in Feb. Please request that your library order a copy. 30% off with the discount code SNWF25. @sunypress.bsky.social @rcolesworthy.bsky.social

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J. M. Coetzee’s “Disgrace” @ 25: A Roundtable - Public Books What freshly nuanced perspectives might we bring to the violent late 20th-century history Coetzee describes?

"The idea of a poisonous text"
J. M. Coetzee’s “Disgrace” @ 25: A Roundtable - Public Books share.google/IYeXXJI7Hy6n...

Love a good mid-summer cover reveal!

Songs in Flight - Album by Various Artists Listen to Songs in Flight by Various Artists on YouTube Music - a dedicated music app with official songs, music videos, remixes, covers, and more.

What a gift of an album
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Chagrined to learn I'm a ways -in-whicher

Remain grateful to @arnabdr.bsky.social for including my @edinburghup.bsky.social book in his excellent series at the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social !
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sometimes the hardest part is getting started! tell your friends, your students ✨

Nick Sturm on Alice Notley ("At Night the States") Close Readings · Episode

I talked with Nick Sturm (@nicksturm.bsky.social) about the brilliant Alice Notley, who died just three weeks ago, and her poem “At Night the States.”

“making life, not explaining anything”

I missed having these conversations.

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#ACLA2025 explore how African literature redefines trauma through animism—linking self, ancestors, and ecosystems. Forthcoming in 8/25, ANIMIST POETICS is a bold revision of psychoanalysis and postcolonial theory through Indigenous ecologies. #LookItUP tinyurl.com/yc6tbb69
#AfricanLit #TraumaTheory

Worried the World Is Falling Apart? That’s OK. It’s Happened Before.

Worried the World Is Falling Apart? That’s OK. It’s Happened Before.

A review of two new books

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A Psychoanalysis for a Reemergent Humanity The Metapsychology of Willy Apollon Edited by Lucie Cantin, Jeffrey S. Librett, Tracy McNulty

What's that? A new @sunypress.bsky.social volume devoted to the metapsychology of Haitian-Canadian psychoanalyst Willy Apollon coedited by Lucie Cantin, Tracy McNulty, and Jeffrey Librett? Yes, please!

As the kids say, we are so back.

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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o - a giant of African literature - dies aged 87 The Kenyan author sent shockwaves through African literature by refusing to write in English.

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o - a giant of African literature - dies aged 87 www.bbc.com/news/article...

♥️♥️♥️ Amazing book and LOVE to see your beautiful face

Amazing work by an amazing former student. doi.org/10.2979/ral....

Amazing, wish I could be there!

Co-Editor needed for Safundi

@safundi.bsky.social is looking for a co-editor.

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Oh wow thanks so so much!

Congratulations!! Really looking forward to this

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🚨 New Episode Alert 🚨

Check out this latest @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode, where I had the good fortune of speaking with Tithi Bhattacharya about her fantastic book Ghoshly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal.

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"one moves around with a sense that the world is at once intensely present and enigmatic" Berlant, Cruel Optimism

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