by Tina Borah | Jul 24, 2024 | Essays, Essays 2024
Challenging the Peripheral: Reading Assam in Reema Rajbanshi’s Sugar, Smoke, Song Growing up in the capital city of Guwahati, Assam, life was marked by recurring floods and occasional violence, shaping a unique resilience in middle-class girls like us. We were...
by Sada Malumfashi | Jul 24, 2024 | Essays, Essays 2024
Can Everyone Travel? What it Means to Travel the World as an African I was just a tourist, and a black one at that.—Ọlábísí Àjàlá, An African Abroad (1963) In a picture from the 1960s, Ọlábísí Àjàlá, a Nigerian journalist, travel writer, actor, and socialite, poses on...
by Paulo Andreas Lorca | Jul 24, 2024 | Essays, Essays 2024
An Eye on AI What makes AI images a strange invention is their innate inscrutability. What we see in these pictures cannot be said to have existed. Unlike photographs, AI images do not result from light falling on material surfaces; they are functions of algorithms...
by Sayani Sarkar | Jul 24, 2024 | Essays, Essays 2024
Cemetery: A Colonial Time Portal All India is full of neglected graves that date from the beginning of the eighteenth century—tombs of forgotten colonels of corps long since disbanded; mates of East India men who went on shooting expeditions and never came back;...
by Andy Andrade | Jul 23, 2024 | Essays, Essays 2024
Countercultural Chronotopes of Thomas Pynchon The 1950s in the United States, marked by the post-World War II economic boom, were characterized by pressures to conform, Cold War fears, and increasing government surveillance. By the 1960s, the United States was primed...
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by Tomás Miriti Pacheco | Jul 21, 2024 | Essays, Essays 2024
Revis[it]ing the Slave Narrative: The Past and Future of Octavia Butler’s Kindred Octavia Butler’s groundbreaking 1979 novel Kindred follows the main character Dana, a contemporary Black writer in Los Angeles, as she is pulled across time and space to the Maryland...
