Said

There was a New Yorker article from 2021 on Said and Aijaz Ahmad I ripped a page out of, and here it is. It’s page 86. I remember reading the Ahmad critiques of many things and liking it. The New Yorker writer reminds us that Said was not aware of Asian, African, or Latin American … More Said

Comment vivre

Recently, I’ve had some days where I felt well here, bringing summer relaxation from Europe and keeping the bubble around me. Not all days, and right now I am not doing well. All of this is to say I shouldn’t prevent myself from feeling well, don’t need to transfer pain onto work, don’t need to … More Comment vivre

More Mbembe

I’m right: race is at the center (of the colonial drama). Of course one knows this but my questions all started out with these novels being taught as examples of literary movements, the issues they raise not addressed at all, and with the fact that I assumed, from my education, that racism was something we’d … More More Mbembe

Things we were talking about in Lviv

Eva Thompson compares Polish, Ukrainian and Russian literature. Book: Imperial Knowledge: Russian literature and Colonialism. Also, Troubadour Imperium: Pushkin to Solshenitsyn. Axel Gasquet – race and orientalism José Alvares Junos – Mater dolorosa, la idea de España en el XIX Routledge guide or anthology to the Iberian world in the colonial period – a view … More Things we were talking about in Lviv