Jeanne-Marie Jackson is an assistant professor of world anglophone literature at Johns Hopkins University. She received her PhD from Yale in 2012. The author of South African Literature’s Russian Soul: Narrative Forms of Global Isolation (2015), she is currently completing “The African Novel of Ideas” for Princeton University Press. She writes for a wide range of academic and nonacademic venues including NOVEL, Research in African Literatures, n+1, 3:AM Magazine, and The Conversation.
Jeanne-Marie Jackson
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Africa “Without Amnesia”
Responses to the idea of a “post-racial” society usually follow a certain script. In most progressive circles in the US, the notion is dismissed as fantasy or delusion. In southern Africa, and particularly in South Africa and Zimbabwe, the analogous term is “nonracial” (not to be confused with its close cousin “multiracial”). As Americans have […]
Cursed Masculinity
Masculinity is a curse. This, at least, is the driving conceit behind Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s Ugandan epic, Kintu, published in Kenya by the Kwani Trust in 2014, and in the US by Transit Books …
Americans in Bulgaria
Loving Eastern Europe is a tricky business. In theory, the term “Eastern Europe” is reductive and clumsy. In reality, it often feels deeply and self-evidently true. This puts those who document the region in a tough spot: how does one convey its idiosyncrasies to the Western eye without lapsing into Soviet caricature? As Anita Starosta declares in […]
