The Postcolonial African Genocide Novel: Quests for Meaningfulness

Africana Studies, Marquette University

In this talk, Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba will draw from his recently published book The Postcolonial African Genocide Novel to examine fictional representations of genocides occurring in postcolonial Africa. Through a comparative reading of novels responding to the mass atrocities against the Igbo in Nigeria (1966-1970) and the Tutsi in Rwanda (1990-1994), the author will underscore the ways that literary encounters with mass violence in Africa’s postcolonies represent violence as a genocide in the attempt to reimagine the conditions giving rise to exterminatory violence. 
Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Winnipeg. His teaching and research interests focus broadly on African and Black/African diaspora literatures. In his current research, he explores the cultural representations of genocidal mass atrocities in Africa. Anyaduba is the author of The Postcolonial African Genocide Novel: Quests for Meaningfulness (Liverpool University Press, 2021).

The Postcolonial African Genocide Novel: Quests for Meaningfulness

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