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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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Jeanne-Marie Jackson @jmja.bsky.social · 23d

“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 · 27d

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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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