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The Ways We Experience Art in David Diop’s “Beyond the Door of No Return”

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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”

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Some of My Favorite Photographs That I Have Taken Over the Years

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Over the years, I have, as many of you have as well, taken countless photos on my phone. I enjoy taking pictures, capturing a moment in time on screen. I do not view photographs as being a direct reality of what happened at that moment; instead, I view them as a staged (framed) moment that depicts a time, a feeling, a mood, not reality. … Read More Some of My Favorite Photographs That I Have Taken Over the Years

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“I understand, I shouldn’t have done it”: David Diop “At Night All Blood Is Black”

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While many books contains first lines that we forget the second we pass over it, others remain with us for years after we initially read the book. Ellen Foster telling us, “When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy. I would figure out this or that way and run it down through my head until it got easy,” rattles … Read More “I understand, I shouldn’t have done it”: David Diop “At Night All Blood Is Black”

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+ annie ernaux, Anton Chekov, José Ortega y Gasset, nobel prize in literature, the years

“All the images will disappear”: Memory and Existence in Annie Ernaux’s “The Years”

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Over the past few weeks, I’ve started to read more works by French writers, including Leïla Slimani’s Adèle and Elisa Shua Dusapin’s Winter in Sokcho. To expand my reading, I asked individuals for other recommendations of female French writers, and one person suggested that I read Annie Ernaux. At the person’s suggestion, I went to the stacks in my library and pulled down a … Read More “All the images will disappear”: Memory and Existence in Annie Ernaux’s “The Years”

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+ african american art, african american literature, american history, france, history, james baldwin

Communing With James Baldwin in France

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Over the past two posts, I’ve been sharing my journal entries from the study travel trip I led to France a couple of weeks ago. Today, I want to finish up this series by sharing a short post from the beach overlooking the Mediterranean in Nice and a post about my journey to St. Paul de Vence to walk through the village that James … Read More Communing With James Baldwin in France

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