Bibliograph

Known and strange things, essays, Teju Cole

Type

Label

Known and strange things, essays, Teju Cole

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Known and strange things

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1772188

Responsibility statement

Teju Cole

Sub title

essays

Table Of Contents

Reading things. Black body: rereading James Baldwin's "Stranger in the village" -- Natives on the boat -- Housing Mr Biswas -- Miracle speech: the poetry of Tomas Transtromer -- W.G. Sebald's poetry of the disregarded -- Always returning -- A better quality of agony -- Poet of the Caribbean -- Essays from one of our best wishful thinkers -- Double negative -- In place of thought -- A conversation with Aleksandar Hemon -- Seeing things. Wangechi Mutu: under the skin of Africa -- Age, actually -- An African Caesar -- Postscript: Peter Sculthorpe -- Red shift/ home -- Spinoza, plums, and why we draw -- Portrait of a lady -- Object lesson -- Postscript: Saul Leiter -- A true picture of black skin -- Dappled things: Pinkhassov on instagram -- Disappearing Shanghai -- Touching strangers -- Finders keepers -- Google's macchia -- The atlas of affect -- Memories of things unseen -- Death in the browser tab -- The unquiet sky -- Being there. Far away from here -- Home strange home -- The rewrite -- A reader's war -- Letter from Lagos: madmen and specialists -- What it is -- Letter from Nairobi: I will say it before death comes -- Captivity -- Unmournable bodies -- In Alabama -- Bad laws -- Brazil notes -- Angels in winter -- Shadows in Sao Paulo -- The diary -- The diary -- The island -- Reconciliation -- Break it down -- The white savior industrial complex -- "Perplexed...perplexed": on mob justice in Nigeria -- A piece of the wall -- Epilogue. Blind spot

Target audience

adult

Classification