TREMOR, by Teju ColeNovelist, essayist, critic, photographer, teacher — most writers or artists are content with one or two of these titles, perhaps blurring the distinctions between main and side pursuits.
“Tremor” is the most sundry and vagrant of Cole’s works to date, with abrupt changes in form, perspective and theme.
(I almost wrote that Cole seems like a postcolonial version of Sebald — but Sebald is already the postcolonial Sebald.)
A Nigerian American photographer and professor named Tunde is antiquing in Maine with his Japanese wife, Sadako, when they find a West African antelope headdress, or ci wara.
A cheap artifact without provenance, it nonetheless starts Tunde thinking about colonial violence on both sides of the Atlantic.
Persons:
Teju Cole, —, “, Cole, W.G, Saturn ”, Tunde, Sadako
Organizations:
Harvard
Locations:
New England, Nigerian American, Maine, West