Thando Njovane
@thandorasbox.bsky.social
Literature & Literary Theory, Trauma, Memory, Psychoanalysis, Childhoods, Intimacy | Co-director @findingafrica | Views are my own |
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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
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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...
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I wrote this blogpost for @sunypress.bsky.social about the process of writing my book, Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature, which is out now. sunypress.edu/Blog/2025/An...
Animism, in Theory
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September 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I wrote this blogpost for @sunypress.bsky.social about the process of writing my book, Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature, which is out now. sunypress.edu/Blog/2025/An...
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Can’t not be excited about a COVER! An “if you know you know” kind of design, and otherwise, elegant suggestion. So grateful yet again to the talented team at @princetonupress.bsky.social.
August 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Can’t not be excited about a COVER! An “if you know you know” kind of design, and otherwise, elegant suggestion. So grateful yet again to the talented team at @princetonupress.bsky.social.
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Love a good mid-summer cover reveal!
July 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Love a good mid-summer cover reveal!
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“I wasn’t in Paris to avenge my postcolonial trauma but that wasn’t NOT on the table, either.” Benedict Nguyen on (re)learning the colonizer’s language.
Paris Made My Cheeks Hurt: On Relearning the Colonizer’s Language
Moving to Paris made my cheeks hurt. After a decade since I’d last worked in France, I found myself back in the land of one of my ancestors’ other colonizers. My Broca’s area could still conjure th…
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July 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
“I wasn’t in Paris to avenge my postcolonial trauma but that wasn’t NOT on the table, either.” Benedict Nguyen on (re)learning the colonizer’s language.
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Sigrid Nunez, a writer I have admired and whose books I've loved for a long time, has included my novel in her New Yorker list of recommendations and now I want to read every one of them.
Sigrid Nunez on the Beauty of Narrative Restraint
The award-winning author of “The Friend” explains why some of the recent books that she admires most are ones in which not much happens.
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May 13, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Sigrid Nunez, a writer I have admired and whose books I've loved for a long time, has included my novel in her New Yorker list of recommendations and now I want to read every one of them.
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‘This is Helen Garner! A woman fluent in French, who compares translations of Rilke for fun. Like the protagonists of her novels, the writer of these diaries is a resourceful, socially skilled woman.’
Anne Enright (@thewrengirl.bsky.social) on the Australian novelist: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Anne Enright (@thewrengirl.bsky.social) on the Australian novelist: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Anne Enright · I stab and stab: Helen Garner’s Diaries
The diaries filled me with nostalgia for all the bollocks we had to listen to back in the day; the interminable wrangle...
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May 12, 2025 at 1:10 PM
‘This is Helen Garner! A woman fluent in French, who compares translations of Rilke for fun. Like the protagonists of her novels, the writer of these diaries is a resourceful, socially skilled woman.’
Anne Enright (@thewrengirl.bsky.social) on the Australian novelist: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Anne Enright (@thewrengirl.bsky.social) on the Australian novelist: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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'Outdoor concerts took place against the stink of burning flesh.'
Caroline Moorehead: How was it possible to play for people on their way to the gas chambers?
Caroline Moorehead: How was it possible to play for people on their way to the gas chambers?
The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz by Anne Sebba | Book review
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March 29, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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‘Scribbled, scrawled, gauche, idle, unlovely – the hand is no one’s, or everyone’s, or mythic, or just a stain left behind by something written there before. You cannot get away from yourself in your own hand.’
Anne Carson in the next issue, online early: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Anne Carson in the next issue, online early: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Anne Carson · Beware the man whose handwriting sways like a reed in the wind
This is an essay about hands and handwriting. I think of handwriting as a way to organise thought into shapes. I like...
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February 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
‘Scribbled, scrawled, gauche, idle, unlovely – the hand is no one’s, or everyone’s, or mythic, or just a stain left behind by something written there before. You cannot get away from yourself in your own hand.’
Anne Carson in the next issue, online early: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Anne Carson in the next issue, online early: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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In his 1962 essay, “Letter from a Region in My Mind,” James Baldwin dissects the mentality of white Americans: “not only overt racists but the sort likely to be well-meaning readers of The New Yorker,” Kevin Young writes.
Kevin Young on James Baldwin’s “Letter from a Region in My Mind”
The essay served as a definitive diagnosis of American race relations. Events soon gave it the force of prophecy.
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February 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
In his 1962 essay, “Letter from a Region in My Mind,” James Baldwin dissects the mentality of white Americans: “not only overt racists but the sort likely to be well-meaning readers of The New Yorker,” Kevin Young writes.
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February 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
— the Creature in Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
— the Creature in Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
name THE hardest line in all of fiction.
February 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
— the Creature in Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
— the Creature in Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
@sarahemilyduff.bsky.social I’m chuffed you showed up on my timeline- mutual friends, perhaps?
February 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
@sarahemilyduff.bsky.social I’m chuffed you showed up on my timeline- mutual friends, perhaps?
‘when she was writing The Vegetarian, mysterious joint pain made the physical act of typing impossible. …
After Human Acts was published, Han was surprised to discover that readers also felt pain reading the novel.’
After Human Acts was published, Han was surprised to discover that readers also felt pain reading the novel.’
‘I want to be hopeful’: Nobel prize-winning novelist Han Kang on the crisis in South Korea
With protests on the streets of Seoul, the celebrated writer talks about the painful process of uncovering her country’s brutal past - and how it felt to win the Nobel prize
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February 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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#24BooksIn24Days #Dec12
Yesterday I read Deborah Levy's The Cost of Living. I didn't love this as much as many seem to do - but I deeply identified with her e-bike enthusiasm 😅
Yesterday I read Deborah Levy's The Cost of Living. I didn't love this as much as many seem to do - but I deeply identified with her e-bike enthusiasm 😅
December 13, 2023 at 10:24 AM
#24BooksIn24Days #Dec12
Yesterday I read Deborah Levy's The Cost of Living. I didn't love this as much as many seem to do - but I deeply identified with her e-bike enthusiasm 😅
Yesterday I read Deborah Levy's The Cost of Living. I didn't love this as much as many seem to do - but I deeply identified with her e-bike enthusiasm 😅
@halfbook.bsky.social omg! I was thinking about you recently! Catch up soon xxx
February 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
@halfbook.bsky.social omg! I was thinking about you recently! Catch up soon xxx
‘You do not suddenly start needing philosophy on your eighteenth birthday: you have always needed it. Fantasy is philosophy’s more gorgeously painted cousin.’
Katherine Rundell on children’s literature: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Katherine Rundell on children’s literature: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Katherine Rundell · Why children’s books?
Children’s books, to a great extent because they are written for those who cannot participate in the market, can offer...
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February 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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"Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy" retains romantic-comedy tropes but finds surprising depth in a devastating plot twist, Sophie Gilbert writes.
Bridget Jones Isn’t a Postfeminist Relic
How the beloved British diarist outlasted her critics
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February 7, 2025 at 10:43 PM
"Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy" retains romantic-comedy tropes but finds surprising depth in a devastating plot twist, Sophie Gilbert writes.
@dorisl26.bsky.social nice to see you here! Can’t wait to see you in the new building 💞
February 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
@dorisl26.bsky.social nice to see you here! Can’t wait to see you in the new building 💞
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@sarahviren.bsky.social talks to @laurenmarkham.bsky.social: “It is now clear to me that ‘what is the power of words?’ is not an answerable question, or if it is, its answer isn’t static.”
Lauren Markham on the Use and Limitations of Language to Describe Disaster
I’ve known Lauren Markham’s writing since her first book, The Faraway Brothers, came out in 2017. Then, a couple years ago, I got to know her a bit more as a person when a friend emailed the two of…
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February 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
@sarahviren.bsky.social talks to @laurenmarkham.bsky.social: “It is now clear to me that ‘what is the power of words?’ is not an answerable question, or if it is, its answer isn’t static.”