Henry Ivry is a lecturer in 20th- and 21st-century literature at the University of Glasgow. His first book, “Transscalar Critique: Climate, Blackness, Crisis,” was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2023. He is currently at work on a new book tentatively titled, “Incommensurate Repair: Insurgency, Infrastructure, and the African American Imaginary.”
Henry Ivry
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What Is the Infrastructure of Critique?
The work of certain authors are infrastructuring critique: building new models of critique, which foreground how infrastructure is not just an object of concern, but a methodology for contemporary scholarship.
B-Sides: Jesmyn Ward’s “Where the Line Bleeds”
Novelist Jesmyn Ward is known for historical grandiosity, but her long-overlooked book “Sing, Unburied, Sing” turns away from realism into the realm of generic strangeness.
