Black Bodies in the Open City: Precarity and Belonging in the work of Teju Cole

This dissertation attempts to read Nigerian-American writer Teju Cole’s fiction and essays as sustained demonstrations of precarity, as theorised by Judith Butler in Precarious Life (2004). Though never directly cited by Cole, Butler’s articulation of a shared condition of bodily vulnerability and i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Watson, Luke
Other Authors: Twidle, Hedley
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Humanities 2020
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31010