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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”

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

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”