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is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Swarthmore College. She is the author of Happiness, Like Water , Under the Udala Trees , and the forthcoming novel, Harry Sylvester Bird .
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is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Swarthmore College. She is the author of Happiness, Like Water , Under the Udala Trees , and the forthcoming novel, Harry Sylvester Bird .
CHINELO OKPARANTA
JULY 15 2022
CHINELO OKPARANTA•JULY 15 2022
Novelist, Chinelo Okparanta’s debut novel was gentle. Her next one will be unflinching: ‘Where Under the Udala Trees was gentle in its hopefulness for a changing world, Harry Sylvester Bird is a much fiercer critique—of race relations, of white-on-black power dynamics, of outright racism and lingering colonialist mentalities, of race-related microaggressions, of the historically biased white Western gaze in literature, of white Western exoticization of Africa, etc.’