Known and strange things : essays by Cole, Teju instant download

Known and strange things : essays by Cole, Teju instant download

pages cm, Consists of various essays some previously published in various journals and periodicals on art, literature, and politics, Includes bibliographical references, Reading things. Black body: rereading James Baldwin's \"Stranger in the village\" -- Natives on the boat -- Housing Mr Biswas -- Miracle speech: the poetry of Tomas Transtromer -- W.G. Sebald's poetry of the disregarded -- Always returning -- A better quality of agony -- Poet of the Caribbean -- Essays from one of our best wishful thinkers -- Double negative -- In place of thought -- A conversation with Aleksandar Hemon -- Seeing things. Wangechi Mutu: under the skin of Africa -- Age, actually -- An African Caesar -- Postscript: Peter Sculthorpe -- Red shift/ home -- Spinoza, plums, and why we draw -- Portrait of a lady -- Object lesson -- Postscript: Saul Leiter -- A true picture of black skin -- Dappled things: Pinkhassov on instagram -- 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 -- Being there. Far away from here -- Home strange home -- The rewrite -- A reader's war -- Letter from Lagos: madmen and specialists -- What it is -- Letter from Nairobi: I will say it before death comes -- Captivity -- Unmournable bodies -- In Alabama -- Bad laws -- Brazil notes -- Angels in winter -- Shadows in Sao Paulo -- The diary -- The diary -- The island -- Reconciliation -- Break it down -- The white savior industrial complex -- \"Perplexed...perplexed\": on mob justice in Nigeria -- A piece of the wall -- Epilogue. Blind spot