Kafka's Blues: Figurations of Racial Blackness in the Construction of an Aesthetic

Kafka's Blues: Figurations of Racial Blackness in the Construction of an AestheticKafka's Blues proves the startling thesis that many of Kafka's major works engage in a coherent, sustained meditation on racial transformation from white European into what Kafka refers to as the "Negro" (a term he used in English). Indeed, this book demonstrates that cultural assimilation and bodily transformation in Kafka's work are impossible without passage through a state of being "Negro." Kafka represents this passage in various waysfrom

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Dreaming that their daughter will become a top-tier businesswoman working in the newly revised Downtown Detroit district

Based on fifteen years of archival research

(2009 Charles Frank Bolden Jr

Knowing that we are not alone

As war storms through Europe

with knowing glances towards poets as diverse as Le'opold Se'dar Senghor and Matthew Arnold

and The Adventures of Team Pom is a hilarious series they revisit again and again

Tracing the movement of people to and from Liberia in the nineteenth century 

Ntarangwi pays special attention to growing cross-border exchanges within East African hip hop

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Sunny knows she must confront her destiny