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Title Statement | Known and strange things: essays / Teju Cole. |
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Author | Cole, Teju |
Publication | New York: Random House,[2016]©2016 |
Extent of Item | xvi, 393 pages |
ISBN | 0812989783 (pbk.) 9780812989786 (pbk.) |
Other Number | 2909781 |
General Notes | Consists of various essays, some previously published in various journals and periodicals on art, literature, and politics. |
Contents | 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. |