How do you break a spell? How do you get over the grief of racial, gendered, and childhood injuries? Helen Oyeyemi’s novel Boy, Snow, Bird is not a black-and-white parable but a black-and-blue story ...
Anne Anlin Cheng
Anne Anlin Cheng is a professor of English and African American studies at Princeton University. She is the author of The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief (Oxford University Press, 2000) and Second Skin: Josephine Baker and the Modern Surface (Oxford University Press, 2011). 