A few weeks ago, I got asked to present on Pauline Hopkins at an upcoming conference. I accepted, and I chose to present on Hopkins’ Of One Blood, Afrofuturism, and Black Panther. Instead of looking at the film, as other scholars have done, I looked at the opening scene in Fantastic Four #52. As well, I did not focus on everything I could have … Read More Pauline Hopkins, Afrofuturism, and Black Panther
It’s hard to believe, but this month marks ten years since I graduated with my PhD in English. I never thought, while I was in thick of things, that I would get my PhD, specifically because it took me years to get into a program. I’ve been thinking about that journey a lot over the past few weeks, spurred on by a question from … Read More How Did I End Up Here?
After completing her undergraduate degree, Angela Davis set sail for Germany as “Watts was burning” to pursue a graduate degree in philosophy. Upon arriving in West Germany, she looked for a room to rent; however, she kept facing agencies who told her, “Es tut uns leid, aber wir haben keine Zimmer fĂĽr Ausländer.” Essentially, they told Davis they did not rent rooms to foreigners, … Read More The Quotidian and The Reproduction of Hate
Talking about the physical body, Dr. Blau, in Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights, says, “It is an outrage that it’s permitted to disintegrate underground, or given to the mercy of flames, burned like rubbish. If it were up to Blau, he would make the world differently — the soul could be mortal, what do we need it for, anyway, but the body would be immortal.” For Blau, … Read More Angelo Soliman’s Importance in Olga Tokarczuk’s “Flights”
Ever since I saw the translation of Nobel Prize in Literature recipient Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob on the shelf at my library, I wanted to read it; however, I didn’t pick it up because I had so many other books I had to read for various projects and I didn’t have time to tackle such a 992 page novel. While I haven’t read The … Read More Remembering the Atrocities of History in Olga Tokarczuk’s “Flights”
Interminable Rambling 