Posts Tagged ‘Historicism’

An Escaped Slave and a Good Person

One of the joys of encountering John Keene’s work is reading his many interviews. Out of respect for his interviewers and readers, time and again Keene finds ways to expand…

An Abstract Architecture: John Keene’s Counternarratives

“Long hours in the study of any text will reveal inner, unseen contours, an abstract architecture,” writes John Keene.1 But even long hours of studying the stories and novellas that…