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De Gruyter eBooks, Sep 20, 2021

First of all, Iwant to thank the ANGB editors for includingmybook in the Anglia Book Series. Iw o... more First of all, Iwant to thank the ANGB editors for includingmybook in the Anglia Book Series. Iw ould alsol ike to thank my PhDa dvisors Ulla Haselstein and Sabine Schülting, as wella sY ogita Goyal, for their invaluable feedback, encouragement,a nd mentorship. Thank yout ot he GSNAS administration for their ceaseless assistance and especiallyt om yc ohort,G SNAS 2014.Y ou're radical and youa re what made this fun. My gratitude goes alsotoZenoAckermann, JustusK.S. Makokha, and Jo Malt for saying the right thingsatthe right time and making me see thatthis was possible. And, of course, to my family: Thank youf or everything. OpenAccess. ©2 021D ominique Haensell, published by De Gruyter. This work is licensed under the CreativeC ommons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Atlantic Studies, Apr 2, 2021

ABSTRACT In this article on Teju Cole’s Open City I distinguish and make apparent the various tem... more ABSTRACT In this article on Teju Cole’s Open City I distinguish and make apparent the various temporal levels on which the novel operates in terms of plot, story, and narrative structure. I illustrate how the novel links the coordinates of temporality and spatiality via the trope of (not only physical) movement and how movement invokes notions of the ostensibly unmarked flâneur, as well as the gendered, racialized, or disabled body. In its complex treatment of trauma, memory, and history, I furthermore highlight how the novel exemplifies different metahistorical positions that can be brought in conversation with current debates in Black and Atlantic studies.

Atlantic Studies, 2021

In this article on Teju Cole’s Open City I distinguish and make apparent the various temporal lev... more In this article on Teju Cole’s Open City I distinguish and make apparent the various temporal levels on which the novel operates in terms of plot, story, and narrative structure. I illustrate how the novel links the coordinates of temporality and spatiality via the trope of (not only physical) movement and how movement invokes notions of the ostensibly unmarked flâneur, as well as the gendered, racialized, or disabled body. In its complex treatment of trauma, memory, and history, I furthermore highlight how the novel exemplifies different metahistorical positions that can be brought in conversation with current debates in Black and Atlantic studies.

Books by dominique haensell

De Gruyter, Volume 73 in the series Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series This study pr... more De Gruyter, Volume 73 in the series Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series

This study proposes that – rather than trying to discern the normative value of Afropolitanism as an identificatory concept, politics, ethics or aesthetics – Afropolitanism may be best approached as a distinct historical and cultural moment, that is, a certain historical constellation that allows us to glimpse the shifting and multiple silhouettes which Africa, as signifier, as real and imagined locus, embodies in the globalized, yet predominantly Western, cultural landscape of the 21st century. As such, Making Black History looks at contemporary fictions of the African or Black Diaspora that have been written and received in the moment of Afropolitanism.

Discursively, this moment is very much part of a diasporic conversation that takes place in the US and is thus informed by various negotiations of blackness, race, class, and cultural identity. Yet rather than interpreting Afropolitan literatures (merely) as a rejection of racial solidarity, as some commentators have, they should be read as ambivalent responses to post-racial discourses dominating the first decade of the 21st century, particularly in the US, which oscillate between moments of intense hope and acute disappointment.

De Gruyter eBooks, Sep 20, 2021

First of all, Iwant to thank the ANGB editors for includingmybook in the Anglia Book Series. Iw o... more First of all, Iwant to thank the ANGB editors for includingmybook in the Anglia Book Series. Iw ould alsol ike to thank my PhDa dvisors Ulla Haselstein and Sabine Schülting, as wella sY ogita Goyal, for their invaluable feedback, encouragement,a nd mentorship. Thank yout ot he GSNAS administration for their ceaseless assistance and especiallyt om yc ohort,G SNAS 2014.Y ou're radical and youa re what made this fun. My gratitude goes alsotoZenoAckermann, JustusK.S. Makokha, and Jo Malt for saying the right thingsatthe right time and making me see thatthis was possible. And, of course, to my family: Thank youf or everything. OpenAccess. ©2 021D ominique Haensell, published by De Gruyter. This work is licensed under the CreativeC ommons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Atlantic Studies, Apr 2, 2021

ABSTRACT In this article on Teju Cole’s Open City I distinguish and make apparent the various tem... more ABSTRACT In this article on Teju Cole’s Open City I distinguish and make apparent the various temporal levels on which the novel operates in terms of plot, story, and narrative structure. I illustrate how the novel links the coordinates of temporality and spatiality via the trope of (not only physical) movement and how movement invokes notions of the ostensibly unmarked flâneur, as well as the gendered, racialized, or disabled body. In its complex treatment of trauma, memory, and history, I furthermore highlight how the novel exemplifies different metahistorical positions that can be brought in conversation with current debates in Black and Atlantic studies.

Atlantic Studies, 2021

In this article on Teju Cole’s Open City I distinguish and make apparent the various temporal lev... more In this article on Teju Cole’s Open City I distinguish and make apparent the various temporal levels on which the novel operates in terms of plot, story, and narrative structure. I illustrate how the novel links the coordinates of temporality and spatiality via the trope of (not only physical) movement and how movement invokes notions of the ostensibly unmarked flâneur, as well as the gendered, racialized, or disabled body. In its complex treatment of trauma, memory, and history, I furthermore highlight how the novel exemplifies different metahistorical positions that can be brought in conversation with current debates in Black and Atlantic studies.

De Gruyter, Volume 73 in the series Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series This study pr... more De Gruyter, Volume 73 in the series Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series

This study proposes that – rather than trying to discern the normative value of Afropolitanism as an identificatory concept, politics, ethics or aesthetics – Afropolitanism may be best approached as a distinct historical and cultural moment, that is, a certain historical constellation that allows us to glimpse the shifting and multiple silhouettes which Africa, as signifier, as real and imagined locus, embodies in the globalized, yet predominantly Western, cultural landscape of the 21st century. As such, Making Black History looks at contemporary fictions of the African or Black Diaspora that have been written and received in the moment of Afropolitanism.

Discursively, this moment is very much part of a diasporic conversation that takes place in the US and is thus informed by various negotiations of blackness, race, class, and cultural identity. Yet rather than interpreting Afropolitan literatures (merely) as a rejection of racial solidarity, as some commentators have, they should be read as ambivalent responses to post-racial discourses dominating the first decade of the 21st century, particularly in the US, which oscillate between moments of intense hope and acute disappointment.