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African Literature and US Empire: Postcolonial Optimism in Nigerian and South African Writing (Edinburgh UP, 2024)

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Katherine Hallemeier @undonealready.bsky.social · Jun 3

Out now as a free Open Access E-book!
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African Literature and US Empire

Demonstrates how African literature grapples with the enforced optimism of US empire that circulates in postcolonial nations

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Rose Casey @rosecasey.bsky.social · 1d

Zoë Wicomb's passing is a monumental loss. She was one of the very best writers working today:
acknowledged yet still underrated on the world stage. Her writing has an acuity, power, wit, grace, and intellect that is most rare. She was brilliant.

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Zoë Wicomb, 1948—2025, RIP

Zoë Wicomb, the pioneering South African author and academic, has died in her home of Glasgow, Scotland. She was 77 years old. Born in the then Cape Province, Wicomb was raised in Namaqualand, then at...

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Jeanne-Marie Jackson @jmja.bsky.social · Sep 15

“The Letter of the Law in J.E. Casely Hayford’s West Africa” is now available for Amazon pre-order! I will even paste the first two blurbs here to entice you, upping by about 100% my not-very-impressive marketing game.

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The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa

The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa [Jackson, Jeanne-Marie] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa

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Arnab Dutta Roy @arnabdr.bsky.social · Sep 12

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Back with another fantastic @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode! I chat with the brilliant @rosecasey.bsky.social about her book Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law and Postcolonial Style (Fordham UP, 2025). Please listen in & check out this fantastic book

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Screenshot of a podcast episode page featuring Rose Casey’s book Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law and Postcolonial Style with summary text, book cover, audio player, and host details for Arnab Dutta Roy.

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Katherine Bowers 🌻 @katiabowers.bsky.social · Sep 5

Margarita Vaysman & I have been working on this for the past 5 (!) years, but it's finally done- the online version is up and the hardcover should be out later this month! Welcome to the Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms, feat. 41 chapters and beautiful cover art: academic.oup.com/edited-volum... 🎉

The Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms

Abstract. Realism is an artistic practice that aims to faithfully represent reality. Historically, it has been practiced across different media, from early

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Katherine Hallemeier @undonealready.bsky.social · Sep 5

Full online publication of the Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms out now! I have a chapter on how The Global African Novel theorizes realism and the violence of global capitalism: academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

The Global African Novel

AbstractThe global African novel, as a genre, describes realist fictions that map contemporary migrations of the African diaspora in the late twentieth and

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Katherine Hallemeier @undonealready.bsky.social · Aug 20

The TLS calls this lovely book by my lovely former colleague Lindsay Wilhelm "elegant and compact"
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Evolutionary Aestheticism in Victorian Culture

Cambridge Core - English Literature 1830-1900 - Evolutionary Aestheticism in Victorian Culture

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Katherine Hallemeier @undonealready.bsky.social · Aug 17

Congrats and can't wait to read it!

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Ryan Topper @ryantopper.bsky.social · Aug 10

Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature is in print! The paperback will be out in Feb. Please request that your library order a copy. 30% off with the discount code SNWF25. @sunypress.bsky.social @rcolesworthy.bsky.social

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Animist Poetics

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Katherine Hallemeier @undonealready.bsky.social · Jul 31

"The idea of a poisonous text"
J. M. Coetzee’s “Disgrace” @ 25: A Roundtable - Public Books share.google/IYeXXJI7Hy6n...

J. M. Coetzee’s “Disgrace” @ 25: A Roundtable - Public Books

What freshly nuanced perspectives might we bring to the violent late 20th-century history Coetzee describes?

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Jeanne-Marie Jackson @jmja.bsky.social · Jul 16

Love a good mid-summer cover reveal!

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Katherine Hallemeier @undonealready.bsky.social · Jul 29

What a gift of an album
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Songs in Flight - Album by Various Artists

Listen to Songs in Flight by Various Artists on YouTube Music - a dedicated music app with official songs, music videos, remixes, covers, and more.

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Katherine Hallemeier @undonealready.bsky.social · Jun 24

Chagrined to learn I'm a ways -in-whicher

Katherine Hallemeier @undonealready.bsky.social · Jun 24

Remain grateful to @arnabdr.bsky.social for including my @edinburghup.bsky.social book in his excellent series at the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social !
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Katherine Hallemeier, "African Literature and US Empire: Postcolonial Optimism in Nigerian and South African Writing" (Edinburgh UP, 2024) - New Books Network

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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · Jun 11

sometimes the hardest part is getting started! tell your friends, your students ✨

Mid Theory Collective @mid-theory.bsky.social · Jun 11

In addition to our reading groups, MTC will host a writing workshop on job market materials this summer. First meeting will be June 27th @ 2pm ET. Second meeting first week of August, date TBD. More information: mid-theory.com/mtc-writing-...

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Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social · Jun 9

I talked with Nick Sturm (@nicksturm.bsky.social) about the brilliant Alice Notley, who died just three weeks ago, and her poem “At Night the States.”

“making life, not explaining anything”

I missed having these conversations.

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Nick Sturm on Alice Notley ("At Night the States")

Close Readings · Episode

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SUNY Press @sunypress.bsky.social · Jun 1

#ACLA2025 explore how African literature redefines trauma through animism—linking self, ancestors, and ecosystems. Forthcoming in 8/25, ANIMIST POETICS is a bold revision of psychoanalysis and postcolonial theory through Indigenous ecologies. #LookItUP tinyurl.com/yc6tbb69
#AfricanLit #TraumaTheory

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Abhishek Kaicker @kaicker.bsky.social · Jun 6

Worried the World Is Falling Apart? That’s OK. It’s Happened Before.

A review of two new books

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Worried the World Is Falling Apart? That’s OK. It’s Happened Before.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · May 28

What's that? A new @sunypress.bsky.social volume devoted to the metapsychology of Haitian-Canadian psychoanalyst Willy Apollon coedited by Lucie Cantin, Tracy McNulty, and Jeffrey Librett? Yes, please!

As the kids say, we are so back.

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