Katherine Hallemeier
@undonealready.bsky.social
African Literature and US Empire: Postcolonial Optimism in Nigerian and South African Writing (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
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Delighted that the paperback edition of "African Literature and US Empire" is now available for preorder from @edinburghup.bsky.social ! On the maddening enforced optimism of educational and financial institutions, on dreams and solidarity.
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African Literature and US Empire
African Literature and US Empire
edinburghuniversitypress.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Delighted that the paperback edition of "African Literature and US Empire" is now available for preorder from @edinburghup.bsky.social ! On the maddening enforced optimism of educational and financial institutions, on dreams and solidarity.
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-african...
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-african...
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What a line-up! An @antipodeonline.bsky.social first: a "longread" of 68 pages! Expect a splendid New Year's gift, when the issue goes to print early Jan!
@udadisi.bsky.social
@samar42.bsky.social @demonicgrounds.bsky.social
#geosky @darajapress.bsky.social
@udadisi.bsky.social
@samar42.bsky.social @demonicgrounds.bsky.social
#geosky @darajapress.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
What a line-up! An @antipodeonline.bsky.social first: a "longread" of 68 pages! Expect a splendid New Year's gift, when the issue goes to print early Jan!
@udadisi.bsky.social
@samar42.bsky.social @demonicgrounds.bsky.social
#geosky @darajapress.bsky.social
@udadisi.bsky.social
@samar42.bsky.social @demonicgrounds.bsky.social
#geosky @darajapress.bsky.social
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Couldn’t wait for this!!!!
The introduction to @scottsvisor.bsky.social brilliant new book is up on the @dukepress.bsky.social website! The book drops on March 17th. www.dukeupress.edu/breaking-the....
Breaking the World: Black Insecurity and the Horizons of Speculative Fiction
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December 19, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Couldn’t wait for this!!!!
Delighted that the paperback edition of "African Literature and US Empire" is now available for preorder from @edinburghup.bsky.social ! On the maddening enforced optimism of educational and financial institutions, on dreams and solidarity.
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-african...
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-african...
African Literature and US Empire
African Literature and US Empire
edinburghuniversitypress.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Delighted that the paperback edition of "African Literature and US Empire" is now available for preorder from @edinburghup.bsky.social ! On the maddening enforced optimism of educational and financial institutions, on dreams and solidarity.
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-african...
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-african...
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The book releases on Jan 1st. Preorder here: www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
The Postcolonial Bildungsroman and the Character of Place - Nebraska Press
In recent decades authors from across the world have adopted and adapted the bildungsroman literary genre to reflect on coming of age in postcolonial spaces ...
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December 6, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The book releases on Jan 1st. Preorder here: www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
Odedina, Ladder of Dreams
November 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Odedina, Ladder of Dreams
Brilliant work by Christine Okoth on migrant remittances in post-independence African fiction. Open access!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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October 20, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Brilliant work by Christine Okoth on migrant remittances in post-independence African fiction. Open access!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Zoë Wicomb's passing is a monumental loss. She was one of the very best writers working today:
acknowledged yet still underrated on the world stage. Her writing has an acuity, power, wit, grace, and intellect that is most rare. She was brilliant.
johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2025/10/14/z...
acknowledged yet still underrated on the world stage. Her writing has an acuity, power, wit, grace, and intellect that is most rare. She was brilliant.
johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2025/10/14/z...
Zoë Wicomb, 1948—2025, RIP
Zoë Wicomb, the pioneering South African author and academic, has died in her home of Glasgow, Scotland. She was 77 years old. Born in the then Cape Province, Wicomb was raised in Namaqualand, then at...
johannesburgreviewofbooks.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Zoë Wicomb's passing is a monumental loss. She was one of the very best writers working today:
acknowledged yet still underrated on the world stage. Her writing has an acuity, power, wit, grace, and intellect that is most rare. She was brilliant.
johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2025/10/14/z...
acknowledged yet still underrated on the world stage. Her writing has an acuity, power, wit, grace, and intellect that is most rare. She was brilliant.
johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2025/10/14/z...
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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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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
newbooksnetwork.com/aesthetic-im...
September 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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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
newbooksnetwork.com/aesthetic-im...
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
newbooksnetwork.com/aesthetic-im...
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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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September 5, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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... 🎉
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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September 5, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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 TLS calls this lovely book by my lovely former colleague Lindsay Wilhelm "elegant and compact"
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Evolutionary Aestheticism in Victorian Culture
Cambridge Core - English Literature 1830-1900 - Evolutionary Aestheticism in Victorian Culture
doi.org
August 20, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The TLS calls this lovely book by my lovely former colleague Lindsay Wilhelm "elegant and compact"
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
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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
sunypress.edu
August 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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
sunypress.edu/Books/A/Anim...
sunypress.edu/Books/A/Anim...
"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 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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July 31, 2025 at 1:13 PM
"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 share.google/IYeXXJI7Hy6n...
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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July 29, 2025 at 12:15 PM
What a gift of an album
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music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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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newbooksnetwork.com/african-lite...
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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June 24, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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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newbooksnetwork.com/african-lite...
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sometimes the hardest part is getting started! tell your friends, your students ✨
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-...
June 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
sometimes the hardest part is getting started! tell your friends, your students ✨
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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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“making life, not explaining anything”
I missed having these conversations.
open.spotify.com/episode/6fLF...
Nick Sturm on Alice Notley ("At Night the States")
Close Readings · Episode
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June 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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.
open.spotify.com/episode/6fLF...
“making life, not explaining anything”
I missed having these conversations.
open.spotify.com/episode/6fLF...
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#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
#AfricanLit #TraumaTheory
June 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
#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
#AfricanLit #TraumaTheory
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Worried the World Is Falling Apart? That’s OK. It’s Happened Before.
A review of two new books
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A review of two new books
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Worried the World Is Falling Apart? That’s OK. It’s Happened Before.
www.nytimes.com
June 6, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Worried the World Is Falling Apart? That’s OK. It’s Happened Before.
A review of two new books
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/b...
A review of two new books
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/b...
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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.
sunypress.edu/Books/A/A-Ps...
As the kids say, we are so back.
sunypress.edu/Books/A/A-Ps...
May 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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.
sunypress.edu/Books/A/A-Ps...
As the kids say, we are so back.
sunypress.edu/Books/A/A-Ps...
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o - a giant of African literature - dies aged 87 www.bbc.com/news/article...
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o - a giant of African literature - dies aged 87
The Kenyan author sent shockwaves through African literature by refusing to write in English.
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May 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o - a giant of African literature - dies aged 87 www.bbc.com/news/article...