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...Kincaid, an analyst at American Airlines, was tired of hearing about the wedding plans of the woman in the next cubicle. "You would have thought it was the Von Trapp wedding from The Sound of Music," he recalls. But it rankled for reasons other than gossip overload. Kincaid was a closeted gay man, living under a "self-imposed silence. My assumption was, 'Don't ask, don't tell.'" Although he was openly gay in the rest of his life, he was afraid to let anyone in hisoffice know. "I had worked a long time to get to this dream...
...sounding like thunder.” Born in America, Iweala comes from a Nigerian family. The novel is the product of his senior creative-writing thesis, which he completed under the tutelage of Visiting Lecturer on African American Studies and on English Language and Literature Jamaica Kincaid. “I knew right away that it was something that should be read by as many people as possible,” Kincaid said in her introduction to the reading yesterday. “Beasts of No Nation” was published this year by HarperCollins, and Iweala has toured...
...child soldier in an unnamed African country. “Beasts” was originally written as a creative thesis in Harvard’s English Department under the guidance of Visiting Lecturer on African American Studies and on English and American Literature and Language, Jamaica Kincaid. At Harvard, Iweala was a Mellon Mays Scholar, and his thesis won a Hoopes Prize. To his surprise, the thesis turned into a novel after Kincaid gave the manuscript to her literary agent. As Iweala explains in a phone interview, he was first struck by the stories of child soldiers during his senior...
Even as famed scholars have left, new ones are on the way, there is reason enough to be optimistic about the future of a department that still retains luminaries like Gates, Jamaica Kincaid, and Guyser University Professor William Julius Wilson. In addition to the new faculty appointments, the increased focus on African Studies and the opening of a unified Du Bois Institute reflect a department that is primed for the future...
...absurdity of this situation is exactly what the 23-year-old author points at. Iweala is a Harvard graduate and received the Hoopes Prize for “Beasts of No Nation,” which he submitted as a creative thesis with the guidance of Jamaica Kincaid. Iweala, a Nigerian-American whose mother is the Nigerian finance minister, has worked with Nigerian child-soldiers in rehabilitation. He gives no illusory messages of hope. On the contrary, all hope is extirpated in the epigraph, in which Rimbaud’s forlorn words resound: “je parvins...