Leave a Comment · Posted on January 25, 2025

Necropolitics of French Colonial Violence: Malaria and Literary Form in Jean-Luc Raharimanana’s “Nour, 1947”

Paper Presented at the 2025 Medical and Health Humanities: Global Perspectives Conference in Doha, Qatar Abstract:This paper connects the representation of malaria in Jean-Luc Raharimanana’s Nour, 1947 (2001) to the novel’s decolonial engagement with nonrealist forms. By analyzing moments where malaria shapes the narrator’s experience, I complicate the representation of malaria in the novel by rejecting […]

Leave a Comment · Posted on May 7, 2020

The Minotaur and the Self

Construction of a Flexible Bulgarian-ness through Disability in Gospodinov’s The Physics of Sorrow The Minotaur in Georgi Gospodinov’s физика на тъгата, translated as The Physics of Sorrow (2011, translated 2015), embodies the sadness and suffering of the modernist periods of ideological conflict over Bulgarian national identity. The history of classical figures in Bulgarian narratives often involved Orpheus […]

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