A Too Perfect Picture by Teju Cole Critique

Please conduct a generous exploratory critique and assessment of your primary text (Levi-Strauss, Sontag, or Cole) in the context of ancillary sources and your own reflections.  In addition to “deepening” (exploring and explaining what troubles and excites you in the evidence) you are also practicing your role as a high-minded critic who is “reckoning” with some extraordinary conceptual claim, or some borderline you see your author crossing, or some lacuna in the text.  As the critic your essaying must bring your primary text into new contexts and/or dialectical conversations and make clear, at each step of the way, how the new contexts or conversation partners complicate, revitalize, clarify and/or raise new questions about the remarkable idea your primary author explores—and the way he/she explores and expresses it.