'The task of countering colorblindness is thus not merely to see race again, but to reenvision how disciplinary tools, convention and knowledge-producing practices that erase the social dynamics that produce race can be critically engaged and selectively repurposed toward emancipatory ends.'
‘My reading might be pointless in terms of the history of literary criticism; but it’s not pointless in terms of pleasure.’ #DeZinVanHetBoek#TheEssenceOfTheBook
'It is important if someone asks you to remember one of your happiest times to consider not only the question but also the questioner.' #DeZinVanHetBoek#TheEssenceOfTheBook
A very impressive elegy printed as a leporello.
It made me realize a thing or two about mourning and about translating (and how those are more interrelated than I had previously thought). Here's how: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5007397334
A love story, a sad one. Am not a fan of the genre myself, but I could appreciate this one. Hurston wrote in the vernacular of her characters, while the backdrop tells of how Black Americans, especially women, struggled to make a living in the 1930s.
'The question is whether we as a society are willing to sacrifice a bit of effciency in the interest of fairness.' #DeZinVanHetBoek#TheEssenceOfTheBook