Writing in a Dark Time
by Teju Cole
- Auteur(s)
- Teju Cole
- Uitgever
- Chicago : University of Chicago, 2021
- Omvang
- 288 p., geïllustreerd, 22 cm.
- ISBN
- 9780226641355
“Darkness is not empty,” writes Teju Cole in Black Paper, a book that meditates on what it means to sustain our humanity—and witness the humanity of others—in a time of darkness. Wide-ranging but thematically unified, Cole’s essays address ethical questions about what it means to be human and what it means to bear witness, recognizing how our individual present is informed by a collective past. Cole approaches our history through a constellation of interrelated concerns: confrontation with unsettling art, elegies both public and private, the defense of writing in a time of political upheaval, the role of the color black in the visual arts, the use of shadow in photography, and the links between literature and activism. Throughout, the author gives intriguing new ways of thinking about blackness and its numerous connotations. As he describes the carbon-copy process in his epilogue: “Writing on the top white sheet would transfer the carbon from the black paper onto the bottom white sheet. Black transported the meaning.”
- Trefwoorden
- decolonisation
- Locatie in de bibliotheek
- Kast 29 - 4: Expanded Space ; Global Art ; zwarte kunst en cultuur
- Opmerkingen
- Incl. Index
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