In black feminist scholar Saidiya Hartman’s seminal 2008 essay, “Venus in Two Acts”, she raises the pertinent question, “[h]ow can narrative embody life in words” (3). She follows on to question, “[h]ow does one listen to the groans and cries, the undecipherable songs, the cackle of fire in the cane field […] and then assign … Continue reading “How can narrative embody life in words?” Tracing Derrida, Love, Beauty, and Afropessimism in Toni Morrison’s Jazz. →