Novel Nations in Africa and Latin America

Harvard FAS

Both a literary form and a site of political imagination, the novel has participated in creating, contesting, and undoing political communities across Africa and Latin America. Rather than treating fiction as a mere reflection of national life, we will approach the novel as foundational for republics. Bringing African and Latin American texts into a South–South dialogue, will explore shared histories of colonialism, revolutionary struggle, and conflict in the aftermath of independence. How do…