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Tao Leigh Goffe

Tao Leigh Goffe is assistant professor of literature and cultural history at Cornell University. Her writing has been published in Small Axe, Anthurium, and Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas.

Articles

Jordan Peele's ‘Us’ depicts the terrors faced by black mothers in a way that owes as much to Toni Morrison’s ‘Beloved’ as it does to classic Hollywood horror. 
Tao Leigh Goffe

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