Abstract:This essay seeks to disrupt temporal distance to consider what an Anzaldúan perspective of Shakespeare contributes to the powerful conversations that premodern critical race studies have engendered. By drawing on what I term the temporal borderlands of Shakespeare—a borderlands rich with varied critical approaches and cultural products from which to consider the boundaries of periodization that demarcate, define, and inform strategies of race making—I offer an intervention that unsettles the critical frameworks that have, for far too long, reinforced the white rage and linguistic violence that sustain Shakespeare's white capital.
{"title":"Traversing the Temporal Borderlands of Shakespeare","authors":"Ruben W. Espinosa","doi":"10.1353/nlh.2021.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nlh.2021.0028","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay seeks to disrupt temporal distance to consider what an Anzaldúan perspective of Shakespeare contributes to the powerful conversations that premodern critical race studies have engendered. By drawing on what I term the temporal borderlands of Shakespeare—a borderlands rich with varied critical approaches and cultural products from which to consider the boundaries of periodization that demarcate, define, and inform strategies of race making—I offer an intervention that unsettles the critical frameworks that have, for far too long, reinforced the white rage and linguistic violence that sustain Shakespeare's white capital.","PeriodicalId":19150,"journal":{"name":"New Literary History","volume":"52 1","pages":"605 - 623"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47963437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This essay is not one i thought to write when asked to contribute to this issue. My expectation was that I would submit a simple revision of "Coloring the Past, Rewriting Our Future: RaceB4Race" (the keynote lecture from which this paper emerges), only along scholarly lines. Yet, as history has long proven, what people intend and what they actually produce may be very different. I now find myself in a different writing space and less wedded to academic rhetoric. This essay, then, is a thought piece, a forward-facing reflection on the public humanities. It is also autobiographical in certain respects, since I am an academic who once struggled to find a place within the academy but no longer do. Thus, this meditation/mediation has two parts. Part One is retrospective: a look back at my place in an effort to decolonize my professional relationship to the academy and the discipline where my intellectual efforts are housed, the field of early modern English literature and culture (where I once landed not fully by choice). Part Two is a letter to and for Black, Indigenous, Peoples of Color (BIPOC) colleagues and allies.
{"title":"Coloring the Past, Considerations on Our Future: RaceB4Race","authors":"Margo Hendricks","doi":"10.1353/nlh.2021.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nlh.2021.0018","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay is not one i thought to write when asked to contribute to this issue. My expectation was that I would submit a simple revision of \"Coloring the Past, Rewriting Our Future: RaceB4Race\" (the keynote lecture from which this paper emerges), only along scholarly lines. Yet, as history has long proven, what people intend and what they actually produce may be very different. I now find myself in a different writing space and less wedded to academic rhetoric. This essay, then, is a thought piece, a forward-facing reflection on the public humanities. It is also autobiographical in certain respects, since I am an academic who once struggled to find a place within the academy but no longer do. Thus, this meditation/mediation has two parts. Part One is retrospective: a look back at my place in an effort to decolonize my professional relationship to the academy and the discipline where my intellectual efforts are housed, the field of early modern English literature and culture (where I once landed not fully by choice). Part Two is a letter to and for Black, Indigenous, Peoples of Color (BIPOC) colleagues and allies.","PeriodicalId":19150,"journal":{"name":"New Literary History","volume":"52 1","pages":"365 - 384"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46538504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:In the early modern East Indies new categories for race appeared, such as white Bengalis and Black Portuguese. European arrival placed a new emphasis on epidermal race to reconfigure older ethnic identifications. This essay examines three ways in which early modern race which was made at the faultlines of boundary shifts: ancient physiognomy inherited from the Arabs and its interaction with European notions of epidermal race centered on the Black/white binary; an intensifying emphasis on ethnic categories, both new and old, such as mestiço and "Chinese," which acquired additional layers of meaning; and, finally the emergence of "Malay" as a capacious category. Physiognomy's values shifted as it adapted to local contexts, but "white" was increasingly associated with Europeans, a Black/white color line divided Europeans from Southeast Asians. Evolving and contingent, racial projects arise from the distribution of resources. In Edmund Scott's An Exact Discourse of the Subtilties, Fashishions [sic], Policies, Religion, and Ceremonies of the East Indians (1606), trade competition and alliances in Banten, Java led to English racialization of some groups, such as the Chinese through anti-Semitic tropes, but not of the South Indian bureaucrats on whom they depended. Economic stakes thus produced racialization, but also, intriguingly, the absence of racialization. While the English drew racial boundaries, Malay became a flexible and capacious category that could integrate outsiders.
{"title":"Making Race in the Early Modern East Indies","authors":"S. Ng","doi":"10.1353/nlh.2021.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nlh.2021.0024","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In the early modern East Indies new categories for race appeared, such as white Bengalis and Black Portuguese. European arrival placed a new emphasis on epidermal race to reconfigure older ethnic identifications. This essay examines three ways in which early modern race which was made at the faultlines of boundary shifts: ancient physiognomy inherited from the Arabs and its interaction with European notions of epidermal race centered on the Black/white binary; an intensifying emphasis on ethnic categories, both new and old, such as mestiço and \"Chinese,\" which acquired additional layers of meaning; and, finally the emergence of \"Malay\" as a capacious category. Physiognomy's values shifted as it adapted to local contexts, but \"white\" was increasingly associated with Europeans, a Black/white color line divided Europeans from Southeast Asians. Evolving and contingent, racial projects arise from the distribution of resources. In Edmund Scott's An Exact Discourse of the Subtilties, Fashishions [sic], Policies, Religion, and Ceremonies of the East Indians (1606), trade competition and alliances in Banten, Java led to English racialization of some groups, such as the Chinese through anti-Semitic tropes, but not of the South Indian bureaucrats on whom they depended. Economic stakes thus produced racialization, but also, intriguingly, the absence of racialization. While the English drew racial boundaries, Malay became a flexible and capacious category that could integrate outsiders.","PeriodicalId":19150,"journal":{"name":"New Literary History","volume":"52 1","pages":"509 - 533"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44339286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Periodization is inherently political and bound up with racial ideas. Following Kathleen Davis's model for the analysis of feudalism and secularism, this essay asks how race governs the politics of time. Understanding the racial logic behind the construction of Italian history in the premodern and modern periods can help us to understand and challenge those categories and logics, thereby destabilizing the ancient/medieval/modern divides. Older concepts of periodization in nineteenth- and twentieth-century historiography divided the ancient world from the Middle Ages, juxtaposing Romans with foreign barbarians as well as with Africans. This essay will first analyze the historiographical category of late antiquity, arguing that the construction of the Lombards, a post-Roman group who ruled much of Italy in the sixth- through eighth- centuries, played a fundamental role in Italian self-definition beginning in the nineteenth century. Finally, this essay examines the use of the concept of Romanitas (Roman-ness or romanità, or the political and cultural values spread by Romans throughout their empire) in modern Italian scholarship and politics to demonstrate that shifts in its conceptualization suggest that the desire to create a white Italian identity was tied to Europe and had devastating effects on those excluded.
{"title":"Historiography, Periodization, and Race: Italy between Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Europe and Africa","authors":"Nicole Lopez‐Jantzen","doi":"10.1353/nlh.2021.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nlh.2021.0022","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Periodization is inherently political and bound up with racial ideas. Following Kathleen Davis's model for the analysis of feudalism and secularism, this essay asks how race governs the politics of time. Understanding the racial logic behind the construction of Italian history in the premodern and modern periods can help us to understand and challenge those categories and logics, thereby destabilizing the ancient/medieval/modern divides. Older concepts of periodization in nineteenth- and twentieth-century historiography divided the ancient world from the Middle Ages, juxtaposing Romans with foreign barbarians as well as with Africans. This essay will first analyze the historiographical category of late antiquity, arguing that the construction of the Lombards, a post-Roman group who ruled much of Italy in the sixth- through eighth- centuries, played a fundamental role in Italian self-definition beginning in the nineteenth century. Finally, this essay examines the use of the concept of Romanitas (Roman-ness or romanità, or the political and cultural values spread by Romans throughout their empire) in modern Italian scholarship and politics to demonstrate that shifts in its conceptualization suggest that the desire to create a white Italian identity was tied to Europe and had devastating effects on those excluded.","PeriodicalId":19150,"journal":{"name":"New Literary History","volume":"52 1","pages":"469 - 487"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48746918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:The field of Early English studies (formerly Anglo-Saxon studies) is both founded on and operates within the parameters of white supremacy. Currently, the field is grappling with questions concerning who it represents, how it reflects on the world, and likewise the boundaries of the period. This analysis investigates the history of the field, surveys its periodization dates, and interrogates our diminished understanding of this time in early medieval history, due in part to the field's continued restrictiveness and insistence on preserving white heritage myths. While outlining the historiography of the field and the early English period, this paper also tackles the erasure or downplaying of Black historical figures and Black scholars in medieval studies. Primarily centering the works of Stuart Hall, Frantz Fanon, Toni Morrison, and a number of postcolonial theorists, this essay examines the field's restrictiveness, gatekeeping, and whiteness, which has fed into ethnonationalism and anti-Blackness. Ultimately, this piece explores the undercurrent of racism prevalent in Early English studies which continues to undermine its potential as a field to provide a deeper and more enriching understanding of the past.
{"title":"A Wrinkle in Medieval Time: Ironing out Issues Regarding Race, Temporality, and the Early English","authors":"M. Rambaran-Olm","doi":"10.1353/nlh.2021.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nlh.2021.0019","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The field of Early English studies (formerly Anglo-Saxon studies) is both founded on and operates within the parameters of white supremacy. Currently, the field is grappling with questions concerning who it represents, how it reflects on the world, and likewise the boundaries of the period. This analysis investigates the history of the field, surveys its periodization dates, and interrogates our diminished understanding of this time in early medieval history, due in part to the field's continued restrictiveness and insistence on preserving white heritage myths. While outlining the historiography of the field and the early English period, this paper also tackles the erasure or downplaying of Black historical figures and Black scholars in medieval studies. Primarily centering the works of Stuart Hall, Frantz Fanon, Toni Morrison, and a number of postcolonial theorists, this essay examines the field's restrictiveness, gatekeeping, and whiteness, which has fed into ethnonationalism and anti-Blackness. Ultimately, this piece explores the undercurrent of racism prevalent in Early English studies which continues to undermine its potential as a field to provide a deeper and more enriching understanding of the past.","PeriodicalId":19150,"journal":{"name":"New Literary History","volume":"52 1","pages":"385 - 406"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49206842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Seventeenth-century accounts of will are a fundamental part of race-making. By reading critical race theory's interventions alongside early modern accounts of volition, I reveal the implications of social contract theorists' consideration of will as a means to calibrate one's relationship to power. Embedded within these discourses is a fundamental, rather than circumstantial, disavowal of participation in the commonweal. I theorize this category of exclusion as "ill-will," a selectively essentialized category that does not require empirical evidence but is instead a pre-emptive anticipation of threat.Ill-will marks relational incompatibility, an abnormal volition, attributed to racialized subjects. As a racializing mechanism in the early modern period, ill-will precludes civic participation. The essay concludes with considerations of how these categories of preclusion inform William Shakespeare's representations of race. Performances of volition, along with affects that the history of will attaches to intention, desire, and ability, are crucial features of Shakespeare's representation of ill-will as a racialized affect.
{"title":"Ill-Will as Racialized Affect: Early Modern Volition, Critical Race Theory, and Shakespearean Ill-Will","authors":"Carol Mejia Laperle","doi":"10.1353/nlh.2021.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nlh.2021.0026","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Seventeenth-century accounts of will are a fundamental part of race-making. By reading critical race theory's interventions alongside early modern accounts of volition, I reveal the implications of social contract theorists' consideration of will as a means to calibrate one's relationship to power. Embedded within these discourses is a fundamental, rather than circumstantial, disavowal of participation in the commonweal. I theorize this category of exclusion as \"ill-will,\" a selectively essentialized category that does not require empirical evidence but is instead a pre-emptive anticipation of threat.Ill-will marks relational incompatibility, an abnormal volition, attributed to racialized subjects. As a racializing mechanism in the early modern period, ill-will precludes civic participation. The essay concludes with considerations of how these categories of preclusion inform William Shakespeare's representations of race. Performances of volition, along with affects that the history of will attaches to intention, desire, and ability, are crucial features of Shakespeare's representation of ill-will as a racialized affect.","PeriodicalId":19150,"journal":{"name":"New Literary History","volume":"52 1","pages":"563 - 583"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47367914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article recalls Franz Kafka's part ownership of the asbestos factory, Prague Asbestwerke Hermann & Co. to introduce two forms of literary recovery, exemplified by Alan Bennett's 1985 television play, The Insurance Man, and James Kelman's 1994 novel, How late it was, how late. Both works develop divergent politicized styles, based on their respective readings of Kafka's life and work. Rather than simply recuperating Kafka from this biographeme or damning him for it, they find the aesthetic means to represent the asbestos problem in the combination of Kafka's biography and writing, either by addressing the long tail of asbestos exposure or by focussing on the interiority of asbestos victims. Brought together, these approaches turn the recovery of Kafka's asbestos factory into a case for thinking about precarity, activism, compensation, and justice.
{"title":"Recovering Franz Kafka's Asbestos Factory","authors":"Arthur Rose","doi":"10.1353/nlh.2022.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nlh.2022.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article recalls Franz Kafka's part ownership of the asbestos factory, Prague Asbestwerke Hermann & Co. to introduce two forms of literary recovery, exemplified by Alan Bennett's 1985 television play, The Insurance Man, and James Kelman's 1994 novel, How late it was, how late. Both works develop divergent politicized styles, based on their respective readings of Kafka's life and work. Rather than simply recuperating Kafka from this biographeme or damning him for it, they find the aesthetic means to represent the asbestos problem in the combination of Kafka's biography and writing, either by addressing the long tail of asbestos exposure or by focussing on the interiority of asbestos victims. Brought together, these approaches turn the recovery of Kafka's asbestos factory into a case for thinking about precarity, activism, compensation, and justice.","PeriodicalId":19150,"journal":{"name":"New Literary History","volume":"53 1","pages":"59 - 84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46826699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This essay examines the figure of the lay reader in recent debates about critique and postcritique. It argues that an attachment to "lay reading" not only fuels the current emergence of countertrends to critical methodologies but also threatens the survival of such postcritical projects. The essay does so by demonstrating, first, how this attachment counterworks an elitist tendency in critical scholarship to regard such modes of reading—and those who value them—as politically dubious (e.g., Bruce Robbins). The essay then shows how this very same attachment also complicates the formulation of viable methodological alternatives to critique: In some cases, it entails a didactic of unschooling that strips literary critics of their status as academics (e.g., Elizabeth S. Anker and Cara L. Lewis); in others, it leads to generic accounts of reading that fail to provide distinct strategies for scholars specifically (e.g., Lucas Thomson and Toril Moi). On this basis, the essay calls for the postcritical project to loosen its attachment to the figure of the lay reader and look to neighboring fields for other ways of moving beyond critique, like, for instance, the current resurgence of Spinozian ethics in affect studies.
{"title":"Postcritique and the Problem of the Lay Reader","authors":"Tobias Skiveren","doi":"10.1353/nlh.2022.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nlh.2022.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay examines the figure of the lay reader in recent debates about critique and postcritique. It argues that an attachment to \"lay reading\" not only fuels the current emergence of countertrends to critical methodologies but also threatens the survival of such postcritical projects. The essay does so by demonstrating, first, how this attachment counterworks an elitist tendency in critical scholarship to regard such modes of reading—and those who value them—as politically dubious (e.g., Bruce Robbins). The essay then shows how this very same attachment also complicates the formulation of viable methodological alternatives to critique: In some cases, it entails a didactic of unschooling that strips literary critics of their status as academics (e.g., Elizabeth S. Anker and Cara L. Lewis); in others, it leads to generic accounts of reading that fail to provide distinct strategies for scholars specifically (e.g., Lucas Thomson and Toril Moi). On this basis, the essay calls for the postcritical project to loosen its attachment to the figure of the lay reader and look to neighboring fields for other ways of moving beyond critique, like, for instance, the current resurgence of Spinozian ethics in affect studies.","PeriodicalId":19150,"journal":{"name":"New Literary History","volume":"53 1","pages":"161 - 180"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47272956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:In Dinaw Mengestu's dual first-person narrative All Our Names (2014), narrator Isaac recounts his departure from a conflict-ridden Ethiopia to Uganda, where he meets the original Isaac from whom he takes the name and passport that eventually enable him to escape from a tumultuous Uganda to the United States. Once in the U.S., the newly minted narrator Isaac begins a romantic relationship with the second narrator, Helen, a white social worker, who assists him on arrival. In the 1970s setting of the novel, narrator Isaac and Helen's interracial romance is fraught, and the text is attentive to the racist complications that the couple face, reminding readers that Africa is unexceptional in the perpetration of violence against Black people. In charting geographies of unfreedom that stretch from Uganda to the United States, Mengestu's novel challenges the overdetermination of African spaces as sites of barbarity and violence. Linking the African space to the American context is the obvious romance between narrator Isaac and Helen, but the novel encodes a more cryptic relationship as well. Mengestu orchestrates interlocking triangles of desire: first with narrator Isaac, the original Isaac, and Joseph, their benefactor in Uganda, and later with Helen, narrator Isaac, and the original Isaac, from whom the narrator derives his travel documents and new identity. As I argue, at the heart of Mengestu's textualization of transcontinental geographies of unfreedom for Black people is a queer script that articulates a repressive infrastructure and repressed desires. Extending the queer archive in African literary criticism and intervening in the reading debate, I read Mengestu's depiction of intricate intimacies as a lesson for recalibrating reading practices against binaries and in praise of queer assemblages of disparate methods as text and context demand.
{"title":"Intricate Intimacies: Reading the Transatlantic Queer in Dinaw Mengestu's All Our Names","authors":"Cajetan Iheka","doi":"10.1353/nlh.2022.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/nlh.2022.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In Dinaw Mengestu's dual first-person narrative All Our Names (2014), narrator Isaac recounts his departure from a conflict-ridden Ethiopia to Uganda, where he meets the original Isaac from whom he takes the name and passport that eventually enable him to escape from a tumultuous Uganda to the United States. Once in the U.S., the newly minted narrator Isaac begins a romantic relationship with the second narrator, Helen, a white social worker, who assists him on arrival. In the 1970s setting of the novel, narrator Isaac and Helen's interracial romance is fraught, and the text is attentive to the racist complications that the couple face, reminding readers that Africa is unexceptional in the perpetration of violence against Black people. In charting geographies of unfreedom that stretch from Uganda to the United States, Mengestu's novel challenges the overdetermination of African spaces as sites of barbarity and violence. Linking the African space to the American context is the obvious romance between narrator Isaac and Helen, but the novel encodes a more cryptic relationship as well. Mengestu orchestrates interlocking triangles of desire: first with narrator Isaac, the original Isaac, and Joseph, their benefactor in Uganda, and later with Helen, narrator Isaac, and the original Isaac, from whom the narrator derives his travel documents and new identity. As I argue, at the heart of Mengestu's textualization of transcontinental geographies of unfreedom for Black people is a queer script that articulates a repressive infrastructure and repressed desires. Extending the queer archive in African literary criticism and intervening in the reading debate, I read Mengestu's depiction of intricate intimacies as a lesson for recalibrating reading practices against binaries and in praise of queer assemblages of disparate methods as text and context demand.","PeriodicalId":19150,"journal":{"name":"New Literary History","volume":"53 1","pages":"107 - 85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42682367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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