BookTeju Cole.
Summary: "With this collection of more than fifty pieces on politics, photography, travel, history, and literature, Teju Cole solidifies his place as one of today's most powerful and original voices. On page after page, deploying prose dense with beauty and ideas, he finds fresh and potent ways to interpret art, people, and historical moments, taking in subjects from Virginia Woolf, Shakespeare, and W.G. Sebald to Instagram, Barack Obama, and Boko Haram. Cole brings us new considerations of James Baldwin in the age of Black Lives Matter; the African American photographer Roy DeCarava, who, forced to shoot with film calibrated exclusively for white skin tones, found his way to a startling and true depiction of black subjects; and (in an essay that inspired both praise and pushback when it first appeared) the White Savior Industrial Complex, the system by which African nations are sentimentally aided by an America "developed on pillage." Persuasive and provocative, erudite yet accessible, Known and Strange Things is an opportunity to live within Teju Cole's wide-ranging enthusiasms, curiosities, and passions, and a chance to see the world in surprising and affecting new frames."--Publisher's description.
Contents:
Preface.
Section I. Reading things: Black body
Natives on the boat
Housing Mr. Biswas
Tomas Tranströmer
Poetry of the disregarded
Always returning
A better quality of agony
Derek Walcott
Aciman's alibis
Double negative
In place of thought
A conversation with Aleksandar Hemon.
Section II. Seeing things: Unnamed lake
Wangechi Mutu
Age, actually
An African Caesar
Peter Sculthorpe
Red shift
John Berger
Portrait of a lady
Object lesson
Saul Leiter
A true picture of black skin
Gueorgui Pinkhassov
Perfect and unrehearsed
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
Against neutrality.
Section III. Being there: Far away from here
Home strange home
The reprint
A reader's war
Madmen and specialists
What it is
Kofi Awoonor
Captivity
In Alabama
Bad laws
Brazilian earth
Angels in winter
Shadows in São Paulo
Two weeks
The island
Reconciliation
Break it down
The white savior industrial complex
"Perplexed ... perplexed"
A piece of the wall.
Section IV. Epilogue: Blind spot.
Acknowledgments.
RequestLocation
Version
Call Number
Items