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'an actual present alive with multiple futures': Narrative, Memory and Time in Ben Lerner's "10:04"
This essay reads Ben Lerner’s second novel, 10:04, alongside contemporary accounts of narrative time and digital memory technologies, and argues that this narrative reflects on a shift in temporality, whereby present ... -
The Author as Arsonist: Henry James and the Paris Commune
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Bakhtin's Discovery and Appropriations: in Russia and in the West
(2024-01-01)This article sets itself a twofold task. On the basis of recently published scholarship, it wishes to revisit the history of Bakhtin's discovery in Russia and the West since the 1960s; but it also intends to offer a tentative ... -
A Case of Multiple Identities: Uncanny Histories of the Arabic Typewriter
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2023-07-07) -
Catching Bullets with Her Ass: Matrilineality and the Canadian Dub Poetry Tradition in the Work of d’bi.young anitafrika
(University of the West Indies, 2021-12-20)This article engages in depth with the poetics of Jamaican Canadian dub poet, playwright and performer d’bi young anitafrika. Focusing primarily on anitafrika’s one-woman play blood.claat, it argues that her aesthetic is ... -
Damaging Goods? Francophone Children's Books in a Postcolonial World
(Edinburgh University Press, 2009-12) -
The David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project
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The Determination of Love
(2017-11-16)This essay explores love poetry in its most militant and perverse forms. It examines three ‘determinations’ of love: first, how love is defined (determined), given that true love always feels new and singular, but language ... -
Documenting hurt: UN, epistemic injustice, and the political ecology of the 2010 cholera epidemic in Haiti
(2021-01-01)In a reiteration of a long history of pathologization of Haiti and Haitians, the cholera epidemic was framed as endemic, an inevitable outcome of the 2010 earthquake, and a quasi-confirmation of Haiti’s premodern, exceptional ... -
A Donkey’s Wisdom: Can Literature Help Us Respond to the China–India Border Clash?
(2020-08-22)The recent clash between Indian and Chinese soldiers in the Galwan Valley has unleashed a new wave of anti-China sentiment and violent rhetoric in India. Can literature help us respond to the China–India border clash more ...
