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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: 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: 9781501377686ISBN 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 ![]() We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviews""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" Author InformationNicole 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) Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |