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The shadow of a tree in upstate New York. A hotel room in Switzerland. A young stranger in the Congo. In Blind Spot, readers will follow Teju Cole's inimitable artistic vision into the visual realm, as he continues to refine the voice and intellectual obsessions that earned him such acclaim for Open City. In more than 150 pairs of images and surprising, lyrical text, Cole explores his complex relationship to the visual world through his two great passions: writing and photography. Blind Spot is a testament to the art of seeing by one of the most powerful and original voices in contemporary literature.

Travel photography. --- International travel --- Authors --- African American authors --- fotografie --- documentaire fotografie --- straatfotografie --- landschapsfotografie --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- Verenigde Staten --- Cole Teju --- 77.071 COLE --- Afro-American authors --- Authors, African American --- Negro authors --- Authors, American --- Writers --- Litterateurs --- Bio-bibliography --- Literature --- Travel --- Photography --- Outdoor photography --- Travel. --- Cole, Teju --- Teju Cole --- Travel photography --- artistieke fotografie --- literatuur --- Fotografie --- #breakthecanon

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A path-breaking contribution to the critical literature on African travel writing.

Travelers' writings, Nigerian --- Yoruba literature --- African literature (English) --- English literature --- Beninese literature --- Nigerian literature --- Nigerian travelers' writings --- History and criticism. --- African authors --- Nigeria --- Description and travel. --- Description and travel --- Amos Tutuola. --- Ben Okri. --- Colonization. --- Cultural History. --- English. --- Global Travel Writing Traditions. --- Global Travel Writing. --- Independence. --- Insight. --- Literary Culture. --- Literature. --- Local History. --- Local Print Culture. --- Nigeria. --- Nigerian Premium Times Books. --- Nigerian Travel Writing. --- Representation. --- Samuel Ajayi Crowther. --- Teju Cole. --- Yoruba-speaking Region. --- Yoruba.

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In 'Runaway Genres', Yogita Goyal tracks the emergence of slavery as the defining template through which current forms of human rights abuses are understood. The post-black satire of Paul Beatty and Mat Johnson, modern slave narratives from Sudan to Sierra Leone, and the new Afropolitan diaspora of writers like Teju Cole and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie all are woven into Goyal's argument for the slave narrative as a new world literary genre, exploring the full complexity of this new ethical globalism. From the humanitarian spectacles of Kony 2012 and #BringBackOurGirls through gothic literature, 'Runaway Genres' unravels, for instance, how and why the African child soldier has now appeared as the afterlife of the Atlantic slave.0Goyal argues that in order to fathom forms of freedom and bondage today-from unlawful detention to sex trafficking to the refugee crisis to genocide-we must turn to contemporary literature, which reveals how the literary forms used to tell these stories derive from the antebellum genre of the slave narrative. Exploring the ethics and aesthetics of globalism, the book presents alternative conceptions of human rights, showing that the revival and proliferation of slave narratives offers not just an occasion to revisit the Atlantic past, but also for re-narrating the global present. In reassessing these legacies and their ongoing relation to race and the human, 'Runaway Genres' creates a new map with which to navigate contemporary black diaspora literature.

African American. --- African. --- Afropolitan. --- Ahmadou Kourouma. --- Atlantic. --- Caryl Phillips. --- Chimamanda Adichie. --- Chris Abani. --- Colson Whitehead. --- Dave Eggers. --- Dinaw Mengestu. --- Francis Bok. --- Frederick Douglass. --- Global South. --- Ishmael Beah. --- Mat Johnson. --- NoViolet Bulawayo. --- Othello. --- Paul Beatty. --- Susan Minot. --- Teju Cole. --- Toni Morrison. --- Underground Railroad. --- abolition. --- absurd. --- affect. --- analogy. --- black Atlantic. --- blackness. --- child soldier. --- diaspora. --- fiction and slavery. --- gothic. --- human rights. --- human trafficking. --- humanitarianism. --- immigrant. --- intertextuality. --- memoir. --- modern slavery. --- neo-slave narrative. --- neoliberal. --- post-blackness. --- postcolonial. --- refugees. --- satire. --- sentimentalism. --- slave narrative. --- trauma. --- ventriloquism. --- war.