Jeanne-Marie Jackson

Nikil Saval - at n+1 of yore - was my personal savior. 😂

Deep Vellum partnership creates new literary translations - Arts & Sciences Magazine Photo by Will Kirk In the 2019 novel Schattenfroh, as narrator Nobody contemplates history, philosophy, religion, and art, his thoughts are forcibly

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Read Fui Can-Tamakloe's "We Are Men" free in @hopkinsreview.bsky.social via @projectmuse.bsky.social

#S2O #OpenAccess

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And then listen to "We Are Men" (read by Tsiddi Can-Tamakloe) along with an interview with Fui Can-Tamakloe at the THR podcast: tinyurl.com/42xjv7pw

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The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa The first book devoted to the the career of anglophone West Africa’s most important early twentieth-century statesman and intellectual

1) As of today, you can read the full Introduction to "The Letter of the Law in J.E. Casely Hayford's West Africa" for free on its @princetonupress.bsky.social page. All books are labors of love, but labor and love are also at the heart of this book's subject.

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This is such a great practice and as a person who has written a book, it is always amazing on the rare occasion when I have received these types of notes and never a burden.

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“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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TRYING X TRYING is on Poetry Northwest’s list of PoNW’s Favorites | Autumn 2025!! In great company.

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Big thanks to Cindy Ok and all at Poetry Northwest.

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Pub date approaching; book shipping now.

7) J.E. Casely Hayford's work is a portal into a milieu where such things mattered very much. I hope that readers find value in my presentation of it. Thank you for coming to my second thread ever.

6) African history and literature have been ill-served by the dominance of "the cultural" and "the social" over intellectualism that is unafraid to declare itself as such. They have been ill-served by a propensity to detach politics from the narration of denser kinds of moral & aesthetic reasoning.

5) But no label under which Casely Hayford and his ilk are packaged -- "coastal elite," "comprador bourgeoisie," “cultural middlemen," etc. -- does justice to the fine-grained attention that CH brought to questions OF disposition, and its role in the cultivation of self and state through law.

4) And hey, look, I get it; clear-headedness, moderation, restraint, and public discernment are not necessarily things we get excited about in 2025. For obvious reasons.

3) In the language of Gen Z (or Y?), this book is my own cri de coeur against "tone-policing" previous generations of intellectuals and state-builders. J.E. Casely Hayford, and the West African (pre-)colonial legal class of which he remains emblematic, was dispositionally liberal to the core.

2) Labor in the sense that it casts Casely Hayford as a kind of formal and conceptual technician, or engineer, and love in that it finds his profound commitment to African civic life in this systematic, nuts-and-bolts sensibility.

The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa The first book devoted to the the career of anglophone West Africa’s most important early twentieth-century statesman and intellectual

1) As of today, you can read the full Introduction to "The Letter of the Law in J.E. Casely Hayford's West Africa" for free on its @princetonupress.bsky.social page. All books are labors of love, but labor and love are also at the heart of this book's subject.

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Will I post MORE BLURBS in the future? Stay tuned to find out. And please pre-order if that’s something you do!

“Jackson’s arguments are compelling, her prose neatly combines clarity of expression with complexity of ideas, and her research is meticulous. Her Casely Hayford emerges as character: simultaneously a literary character and a person of great character.”—Peter Kalliney, University of Kentucky

“This is a tour de force—erudite, bold, and original. Jackson models the complexity of her subject with a sophisticated handling that refuses to cast Casely Hayford in a simple light. The book is a generational accomplishment.”—Cajetan Iheka, Yale University

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.

www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0691...

New ELH! With an English Institute MEGA-CLUSTER! 🤯

Good morning! If you'd like to read smart things instead of all the stupid things, the new ELH is out, with essays from The English Institute. New work by Quashie, Post, Orlemanski, Yousef, CW Smith, Tongson, and yours truly, introduced by Fleissner and Enelow.

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I clearly have not cracked the Bluesky code, because no one seems to see any of my posts, but hey, I’ll keep trying.

Are you in Baltimore? Here are two great event you should come to!

Think about joining us tonight if you’re in or near D.C! Free and open to the public at Johns Hopkins’ Bloomberg campus, and yes we’ll have wine.

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

A big - in fact, HUGE welcome to the inaugural “AGHI in Translation” text, produced by @deepvellum.bsky.social in partnership with the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute. Not feeling very celebratory on the whole these days, but I am one proud new Institute Director.

Sharing my book cover again because I love it and 99% of everything else is depressing.

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."

It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Can’t not be excited about a COVER! An “if you know you know” kind of design, and otherwise, elegant suggestion. So grateful yet again to the talented team at @princetonupress.bsky.social.