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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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Department of English Language and Literature
2020
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