Ta-Nehisi Coates’s 2015 epistolary novel Between The World and Me is a text that absolutely captures the contemporary moment but is also foregrounded in the historicity of the issues central to the text: racial violence and injustice in the USA. To first contextualise why the text is so important in the current moment, the US is at a watershed moment in racial justice with the … Continue reading How does Ta-Nehisi Coates ‘write’ the black body in Between The World and Me?