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The Ways We Experience Art in David Diop’s “Beyond the Door of No Return”
Last year, I picked up David Diop’s At Night All Blood is Black and devoured it in a single day. The novel details the experiences of Alfa Ndiaye, a Senegalese solider, during World War I, specifically as he fights for the French as a colonized subject. Diop’s novel grabbed me from the start and never let go, and after reading it, I knew that I wanted to read … Read More The Ways We Experience Art in David Diop’s “Beyond the Door of No Return”
Interminable Rambling 