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Known and strange things : essays
- Title
- Known and strange things : essays / Teju Cole.
- Author
- Cole, Teju
- Publication
- New York : Random House, [2016]
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 393 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations; 21 cm
- 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."--Amazon.com.
- Uniform Title
- Essays. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Essays.
- Subject
- Baldwin, James, 1924-1987 > Criticism and interpretation
- Essays
- Aesthetics > History and criticism
- Literature > History and criticism
- Politics and literature > History and criticism
- African American photographers > History and criticism
- African American authors > History and criticism
- African American politicians > History and criticism
- Black lives matter movement
- Africa > Foreign relations > History and criticism
- Genre/Form
- Essays.
- Note
- Consists of various essays on art, literature, and politics, some previously published in various journals and periodicals.
- Contents
- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Blind spot.
- Call Number
- Sc D 16-1391
- ISBN
- 9780812989786
- 0812989783
- LCCN
- 2015042074
- OCLC
- 929917329
- Author
- Cole, Teju, author.
- Title
- Known and strange things : essays / Teju Cole.
- Publisher
- New York : Random House, [2016]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 16-1391