The Resource Known and strange things : essays, Teju Cole
Known and strange things : essays, Teju Cole
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- Summary
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- "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
- "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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xvi, 393 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Note
- Consists of various essays on art, literature, and politics, some previously published in various journals and periodicals
- Contents
-
- 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
- Preface. -- Section I. Reading things:
- 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
- Black body
- 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
- Natives on the boat
- Home strange home
- The reprint
- A reader's war
- Madmen and specialists
- What it is
- Kofi Awoonor
- Captivity
- In Alabama
- Bad laws
- Brazilian earth
- Housing Mr. Biswas
- 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:
- Tomas Tranströmer
- Blind spot.
- Acknowledgments
- Poetry of the disregarded
- Always returning
- A better quality of agony
- Isbn
- 9780812989786
- Label
- Known and strange things : essays
- Title
- Known and strange things
- Title remainder
- essays
- Statement of responsibility
- Teju Cole
- Subject
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- Aesthetics -- History and criticism
- Africa
- Africa
- Africa -- Foreign relations | History and criticism
- African American authors
- African American authors -- History and criticism
- African American photographers
- African American photographers -- History and criticism
- African American politicians
- African American politicians -- History and criticism
- Baldwin, James, 1924-1987
- Baldwin, James, 1924-1987 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Black lives matter movement
- Black lives matter movement
- Diplomatic relations
- Electronic books
- Essays
- Essays
- Essays
- Essays
- Literature
- Literature -- History and criticism
- Politics and literature
- Politics and literature -- History and criticism
- v, Essays
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Aesthetics
- Language
- eng
- 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
- "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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Cole, Teju
- Dewey number
- 824/.92
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR9387.9.C67
- LC item number
- A6 2016
- Literary form
- essays
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Baldwin, James
- Baldwin, James
- Essays
- Aesthetics
- Literature
- Politics and literature
- African American photographers
- African American authors
- African American politicians
- Black lives matter movement
- Africa
- Africa
- Aesthetics
- African American authors
- African American photographers
- African American politicians
- Black lives matter movement
- Diplomatic relations
- Essays
- Literature
- Politics and literature
- Africa
- Label
- Known and strange things : essays, Teju Cole
- Note
- Consists of various essays on art, literature, and politics, some previously published in various journals and periodicals
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- 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
- Preface. -- Section I. Reading things:
- 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
- Black body
- 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
- Natives on the boat
- Home strange home
- The reprint
- A reader's war
- Madmen and specialists
- What it is
- Kofi Awoonor
- Captivity
- In Alabama
- Bad laws
- Brazilian earth
- Housing Mr. Biswas
- 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:
- Tomas Tranströmer
- Blind spot.
- Acknowledgments
- Poetry of the disregarded
- Always returning
- A better quality of agony
- Control code
- ocn929917329
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- xvi, 393 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780812989786
- Lccn
- 2015042074
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
-
- 40026275809
- 99969064298
- Other physical details
- illustrations (chiefly color)
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780812989786
- (OCoLC)929917329
- Label
- Known and strange things : essays, Teju Cole
- Note
- Consists of various essays on art, literature, and politics, some previously published in various journals and periodicals
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- 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
- Preface. -- Section I. Reading things:
- 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
- Black body
- 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
- Natives on the boat
- Home strange home
- The reprint
- A reader's war
- Madmen and specialists
- What it is
- Kofi Awoonor
- Captivity
- In Alabama
- Bad laws
- Brazilian earth
- Housing Mr. Biswas
- 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:
- Tomas Tranströmer
- Blind spot.
- Acknowledgments
- Poetry of the disregarded
- Always returning
- A better quality of agony
- Control code
- ocn929917329
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- xvi, 393 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780812989786
- Lccn
- 2015042074
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
-
- 40026275809
- 99969064298
- Other physical details
- illustrations (chiefly color)
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780812989786
- (OCoLC)929917329
Subject
- Aesthetics -- History and criticism
- Africa
- Africa
- Africa -- Foreign relations | History and criticism
- African American authors
- African American authors -- History and criticism
- African American photographers
- African American photographers -- History and criticism
- African American politicians
- African American politicians -- History and criticism
- Baldwin, James, 1924-1987
- Baldwin, James, 1924-1987 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Black lives matter movement
- Black lives matter movement
- Diplomatic relations
- Electronic books
- Essays
- Essays
- Essays
- Essays
- Literature
- Literature -- History and criticism
- Politics and literature
- Politics and literature -- History and criticism
- v, Essays
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Aesthetics
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