It’s Eileen’s Time: Traces of Life with Kalidou Sy

Focusing on the cinematic articulations between time and reality, this article summons cinema, literature, biography, and history to study time as a ductile and intimate form of engagement with the past. Combining analytical investigation of Teju Cole’s Open City and Jo Ramaka’s It’s My Man with met...

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Published in:Research in African literatures Vol. 55; no. 3; pp. 50 - 62
Main Author: Harrow, Kenneth
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Bloomington Indiana University Press 22.09.2025
Subjects:
Activism
African cinema
African literature
Cole, Teju
College faculty
College teachers
Culture
Julien, Eileen
Literature
Multiculturalism & pluralism
Nation states
Neocolonialism
Novels
Painters
Painters (Artists)
Portrayals
Provocation
Publishing
Social aspects
Space and time
Spacetime
Study abroad
Sy, Kalidou
Transnationalism
Works
Africa
New York
Nigeria
France
United States > US
Michigan
ISSN:0034-5210, 1527-2044, 1527-2044
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Summary:Focusing on the cinematic articulations between time and reality, this article summons cinema, literature, biography, and history to study time as a ductile and intimate form of engagement with the past. Combining analytical investigation of Teju Cole’s Open City and Jo Ramaka’s It’s My Man with methodological provocation, the paper uncovers at every level of Eileen Julien’s work the texture and depth of lived experience: as a literary critic, as an activist academic and community builder, and as the life companion and legacy keeper of Senegalese artist Kalidou Sy.
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ISSN:0034-5210
1527-2044
1527-2044
DOI:10.2979/ral.00071