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xvi, 393 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm |
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| Contents |
Preface. -- Section I. Reading things: Black body -- Natives on the boat -- Housing Mr. Biswas -- Tomas Tranströmer -- Poetry of the disregarded -- Always returning -- A better quality of agony -- Derek Walcott -- Aciman's alibis -- Double negative -- In place of thought -- A conversation with Aleksandar Hemon. -- Section II. Seeing things: Unnamed lake -- Wangechi Mutu -- Age, actually -- An African Caesar -- Peter Sculthorpe -- Red shift -- John Berger -- Portrait of a lady -- Object lesson -- Saul Leiter -- A true picture of black skin -- Gueorgui Pinkhassov -- Perfect and unrehearsed -- Disappearing Shanghai -- Touching strangers -- Finders keepers -- Google's macchia -- The atlas of affect -- Memories of things unseen -- Death in the browser tab -- The unquiet sky -- Against neutrality. -- Section III. Being there: Far away from here -- Home strange home -- The reprint -- A reader's war -- Madmen and specialists -- What it is -- Kofi Awoonor -- Captivity -- In Alabama -- Bad laws -- Brazilian earth -- Angels in winter -- Shadows in São Paulo -- Two weeks -- The island -- Reconciliation -- Break it down -- The white savior industrial complex -- "Perplexed ... perplexed" -- A piece of the wall. -- Section IV. Epilogue: Blind spot. -- Acknowledgments. |
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Consists of various essays on art, literature, and politics, some previously published in various journals and periodicals. |
| Summary |
"With this collection of more than fifty pieces on politics, photography, travel, history, and literature, Teju Cole solidifies his place as one of today's most powerful and original voices. On page after page, deploying prose dense with beauty and ideas, he finds fresh and potent ways to interpret art, people, and historical moments, taking in subjects from Virginia Woolf, Shakespeare, and W.G. Sebald to Instagram, Barack Obama, and Boko Haram."--Amazon.com. |
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"With this collection of more than fifty pieces on politics, photography, travel, history, and literature, Teju Cole solidifies his place as one of today's most powerful and original voices. On page after page, deploying prose dense with beauty and ideas, he finds fresh and potent ways to interpret art, people, and historical moments, taking in subjects from Virginia Woolf, Shakespeare, and W.G. Sebald to Instagram, Barack Obama, and Boko Haram. Cole brings us new considerations of James Baldwin in the age of Black Lives Matter; the African American photographer Roy DeCarava, who, forced to shoot with film calibrated exclusively for white skin tones, found his way to a startling and true depiction of black subjects; and (in an essay that inspired both praise and pushback when it first appeared) the White Savior Industrial Complex, the system by which African nations are sentimentally aided by an America "developed on pillage." Persuasive and provocative, erudite yet accessible, Known and Strange Things is an opportunity to live within Teju Cole's wide-ranging enthusiasms, curiosities, and passions, and a chance to see the world in surprising and affecting new frames."--Publisher's description. |
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Baldwin, James, 1924-1987 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Essays.
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Aesthetics -- History and criticism.
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Literature -- History and criticism.
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Politics and literature -- History and criticism.
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African American photographers -- History and criticism.
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African American authors -- History and criticism.
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African American politicians -- History and criticism.
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Black lives matter movement.
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Africa -- Foreign relations -- History and criticism.
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v Essays.
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Essays.
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Essays. Selections
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| ISBN |
9780812989786 (paperback) : $17.00 |
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0812989783 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
40026275809 |
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99969064298 |
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