Rebellion

Rebellion, Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship” – Chicago Review of Books

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Rebellion, Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] For Hawa Allan, history is a recurring nightmare. “Does this sound dramatic?” she asks in the beginning of her book Insurrection: Rebellion, Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship. “I don’t care, because it’s true.”  Allan is a lawyer, but also a writer of fiction and poetry. She is a lecturer at … Read more

Cosmic Rebellion in “Trafik” – Chicago Review of Books

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Cosmic Rebellion in “Trafik” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Since her connection with American and European surrealist groups of the 1960s (Arsenal, Phases) Rikki Ducornet has deployed tactics familiar to the historical avant-garde, including an emphasis on gnosticism, cosmology, diablerie, bestiary, eroticism, and revolution, to produce an astounding body of work, cogent and ethical in its beauty and spirit. Ducornet’s early novels form … Read more