A voice sometimes tentative and searching, then sure of its scholarship, then puzzled by some large absence in the archive, then engrossed by a poem, an essay, a letter. All the time, that voice made the reader become engaged both emotionally and intellectually in the quest to re-see and re-imagine and re-read the past
Colm Tóibín
Mathelinda Nabugodi shows us that those palely loitering Romantic poets were deeply entwined with the Black Atlantic, and that these connections inform our ongoing encounters with canonical whiteness. The Trembling Hand reaches out to readers, contributes to a highly topical reevaluation of the literary canon, and offers itself as a generous and thoughtful memoir