Beyond Babylon

Kelsey McFaul is a PhD candidate in the Department of Literature at University of California, Santa Cruz. She studies African literature and literary expressions of the Indian Ocean.

Kelsey McFaul

Fractured and Fluid Identity: On Igiaba Scego’s “Beyond Babylon”

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

Kelsey McFaul is a PhD candidate in the Department of Literature at University of California, Santa Cruz. She studies African literature and literary expressions of the Indian Ocean.