USA Africa Dialogue Series - Neo Africanus - In Teju Cole's World

Of the many encounters in which Julius, the protagonist of Open City – Teju Cole's elegantly disarming novel – finds himself, two strike me as constituting the pulse of the subtle cultural politics animating the novel. In the first, the young psychiatrist is about to post a letter when the post office clerk, Terry, struck by his choice of stamp, says, "Say, brother, where are you from? 'Cause, see, I could tell you were from the Motherland. And you brothers have something that is vital, you understand me. You have something that is vital for the health of those of us raised on this side of the ocean. Let me tell you something: I am raising my daughters as Africans."  further reading at:
http://www.mtls.ca/issue16/writings/essay/akin-adesokan/


Amatoritsero

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