On Haiti and the Resistive Imagination
The zombie of the Revolution has now infiltrated popular culture, history, and creative expressions.
By novel’s end, you’ve been swallowed up and spat out, doused in stinging wetness and covered in luminescent fur.
My Heart Hemmed In – Marie NDiaye
NDiaye, who is half French and half Senegalese, drains the narrative of the usual markers of identity, leaving behind elemental psychological processes and beguiling allusions.
Swallow the Fish – Gabrielle Civil
Civil upends our assumptions around artistic displays of the body, demands we consider the fact that performance art engages with unruly ghosts and wounded riddles.
I keep wondering what it means for a city to be no-place. What it means to make home out of no-place.
Visceral Poetics – Eleni Stecopoulos
In [Stecopoulos’] travels through health, “words, vocables, writing, and philological aura” exist as medical technology.
Restless Continent – Aja Couchois Duncan
The speaker, a person split between Ojibwe and European lineages, is uninterested in narratives that paint the colonization of the North American continent as a sentimental tale of innocence lost and civilization found. How would the earth remember?
Where is violence manufactured? What styles allow and encourage our conditioning, our reproducing? How to be in systems that place you in permanent states of negation?
Seventy-seven years later, Sarraute’s writing continues to unnerve and interrogate our readerly expectations.