Category Archives: scale

Beyond a Boundary: C. L. R. James in Glasgow

Posted on May 13, 2013 by wcd2

May 13, 2013 Scotland and the Caribbean? The architecture of Glasgow tells a dramatic story. Here, in the center of town, is the many-pillared Gallery of Modern Art, monumental even for a museum, which used to be the … Continue reading →

Posted in Americas, architecture, Atlantic, Caribbean literature, Cities, Colonization, Contemporary Art, film medium, Global South, oceans, Race, scale, slavery, Sports, Twentieth century literature, Universities | Tagged African National Congress, Atlantic trade, BBC, Beyond a Boundary, C. L. R. James, Cambridge University, cricket, F W de Klerk, Gallery of Modern of Modern Art, Guradian, John Arlott, Middlesex, Mike Brearley, Mike Dibb, Nelson Mandela, Robert Hill, Scotland, Selma James, Sout Africa, suger cane, tobacco, University of Glasgow, West Indies, William Cunninghame | Leave a comment

Rob Nixon: Slow Violence

Posted on January 11, 2012 by wcd2

January 11, 2012 The last day of the MLA: anyone still around? But it was one of the best panels I’d been to. A resonant title: “Velocities of Ecocriticism.” A full audience. And three great papers: Ursula Heise, Timothy Morton, … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate change, Environmentalism, Media, scale, Theater | Tagged Copenhagen Summit, environmentalism of the poor, human and nonhuman, macro and micro, Maldives, Rob Nixon, Timothy Morton, Ursula Heise, velocities of events | 20 Comments

Richard Wright’s Haiku

Posted on November 16, 2011 by wcd2

November 16, 2011 I never thought his career would end in this way: thousands of these 17-syllable poems, with no narrative, nothing that adds up, just a passing thought, the briefest of observations, seemingly going nowhere: Meticulously The cat licks … Continue reading →

Posted in Japanese poetry, Paris, scale | Tagged Black Boy, generic conventions, Ghana, haiku, Native Son, photography, Richard Wright | 9 Comments

Question of scale

Posted on November 9, 2011 by wcd2

November 9, 2011 A great conference at the University of Maryland. “Rethinking World Literature/ Other World Literatures” — this is what a lot of us claim to be doing, but probably not with the same panache, conviction, and embarrassment about … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in Japanese poetry, Paris, scale, world literature | Tagged cemetery, fiction/poetry, France, Gertrude Stein, haiku, Japanese poetry, Julia Wright, Paris, Richard Wright, scale, world literature | 26 Comments