Nicholas L. Johnson

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 […]