Alchemies of Blood and Afro-Diasporic Fiction: Race, Kinship, and the Passion for Ontology

Author:   Prof Nicole Simek (Professor of French and Interdisciplinary Studies, Whitman College, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Pages:   224
Publication Date:   26 June 2025
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Author:   Prof Nicole Simek (Professor of French and Interdisciplinary Studies, Whitman College, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic USA
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781501377686


ISBN 10:   150137768
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   26 June 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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""This is a refreshing and original reflection on racial theory and contemporary cultural production that speaks aptly to the tensions and anxieties of our times while demonstrating how literature and film can offer salutary alternatives to ongoing racial injustice."" --Jane Hiddleston, Professor of Literatures in French, Oxford University, UK ""Nicole Simek's Alchemies of Blood and Afro-Diasporic Fiction offers a trenchant critique of cultural and political bloodlines in contemporary Black thought. In a bold series of case studies, from genealogical analysis to a wonderful juxtaposition of work by Whitehead and Condé, Simek provides fresh thinking on a passion for the real in Black writing. An impressive contribution."" --Peter Hitchcock, Professor of English, Baruch College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA


This is a refreshing and original reflection on racial theory and contemporary cultural production that speaks aptly to the tensions and anxieties of our times while demonstrating how literature and film can offer salutary alternatives to ongoing racial injustice. * Jane Hiddleston, Professor of Literatures in French, Oxford University, UK * Nicole Simek’s Alchemies of Blood and Afro-Diasporic Fiction offers a trenchant critique of cultural and political bloodlines in contemporary Black thought. In a bold series of case studies, from genealogical analysis to a wonderful juxtaposition of work by Whitehead and Condé, Simek provides fresh thinking on a passion for the real in Black writing. An impressive contribution. * Peter Hitchcock, Professor of English, Baruch College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA *


"""This is a refreshing and original reflection on racial theory and contemporary cultural production that speaks aptly to the tensions and anxieties of our times while demonstrating how literature and film can offer salutary alternatives to ongoing racial injustice."" --Jane Hiddleston, Professor of Literatures in French, Oxford University, UK ""Nicole Simek's Alchemies of Blood and Afro-Diasporic Fiction offers a trenchant critique of cultural and political bloodlines in contemporary Black thought. In a bold series of case studies, from genealogical analysis to a wonderful juxtaposition of work by Whitehead and Cond�, Simek provides fresh thinking on a passion for the real in Black writing. An impressive contribution."" --Peter Hitchcock, Professor of English, Baruch College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA"


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Nicole Simek is Cushing Eells Professor of Philosophy and Literature at Whitman College, USA. She is co-editor of Francophone Literature as World Literature (Bloomsbury, 2020), author of two books, including Hunger and Irony in the French Caribbean: Literature and Theory in Public Life (2016), and translator of Maryse Condé's The Belle Créole (2020)

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