Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time Cole Teju
Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time Cole Teju A profound book of essays from a celebrated master of the form. One of the most celebrated essayists of his generation, Cole here plays variations on the…
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Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time Cole Teju
A profound book of essays from a celebrated master of the form. One of the most celebrated essayists of his generation, Cole here plays variations on the essay form, modeling ways to attend to experience--not just to take in but to think critically about what we sense and what we don't.Wide-ranging but thematically unified, the essays address ethical questions about what it means to be human and what it means to bear witness, recognizing how our individual present is informed by a collective past. "Darkness is not empty," writes Teju Cole in Black Paper, a book that meditates on what it means to sustain our humanity--and witness the humanity of others--in a time of darkness.
Cole's writings in Black Paper approach the fractured moment of our history through a constellation of interrelated concerns: confrontation with unsettling art, elegies both public