Emily Hyde

Bio

Emily Hyde is an Associate Professor of English at Rowan University where she is completing A Way of Seeing: Postcolonial Modernism and the Visual Book, a monograph examining the global forms of mid-twentieth-century literature through the vexed status of the visual.

Contributions

Postcolonial Modernism and the Camera Eye: Eliot Elisofon’s Photographs of African Art

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From the Print Journal
© 2022 Johns Hopkins University Press 1959: The Atlantic magazine devotes its April issue to “Africa South of the Sahara.” Articles on the politics of decolonization frame a large number of contributions on art and culture. A short story by Chinua Achebe appears alongside the work of Nadine Gordimer, Tom Mboya, Léon Damas, Léopold Sédar-Senghor, Amos Tutuola, and David Diop. “The Sacrificial Egg” is Achebe’s first story published in the United States, and its timing supports the US release of...

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Africa photography colonialism