Papel Negro

Wide-ranging but thematically unified, the essays address ethical questions about what it means to be human and what it means to bear witness, recognizing how our individual present is informed by a collective past. Cole's writings in Black Paper approach the fractured moment of our history through a constellation of interrelated concerns: confrontation with unsettling art, elegies both public and private, the defense of writing in a time of political upheaval, the role of the color black in the visual arts, the use of shadow in photography, and the links between literature and activism. Throughout, Cole gives us intriguing new ways of thinking about blackness and its numerous connotations.

Teju Cole (Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1975) creció en Nigeria y en 1992 se estableció en Estados Unidos. Es escritor, fotógrafo e historiador del arte. Debutó en 2007 con la novela Cada día es del ladrón (Acantilado, 2016), a la que siguió Ciudad abierta (Acantilado, 2012), obra aclamada y galardonada con el Premio PEN/Hemingway, el New York City Book Award for Fiction y el Premio Rosenthal de la American Academy of Arts and Letters. También ha publicado un libro de ensayo, Cosas conocidas y extrañas (Acantilado, 2018).