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Speaker: Dr Abba Abba (University of Reading)
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This research seminar is free & open to all.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Dr Abba Abba\u2019s paper interrogates the archival and literary evidence of Heinemann\u2019s minoritization of Biafran voices and politicisation of publishing them during the Nigeria-Biafra war. It argues that some significant publisher-author correspondences and unpublished materials reflecting the perspectives of Biafractivist authors, which are kept at the African Writers Series\u2019 Archive at the University of Reading, can function as research tools for engaging and reclaiming the perceived \u201crebel\u201d authors\u2019 voices and the publisher\u2019s ambivalent circumstances during the war. Relying on a postcolonial reading of Homi Bhabha\u2019s \u201cThird space\u201d as a theoretical strategy, and deploying archival methodology and its application to literary intersectionality, it teases out how these materials represent Biafrans as \u201coutsiders within\u201d Nigeria., and why Biafran voices fall through the cracks in the war\u2019s historicity through an analysis of their experiences in selected documents and unpublished materials on the war<\/p>\n

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Dr Abba Abba is currently a British Academy Visiting Research Fellow, Department of English Literature, University of Reading, with some research visits at the Special Collections Archive at MERL. He is a Fellow of the German Academic Exchange Service \u2013 DAAD (completed a postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Humboldt University, Berlin, 2018\u20132019). He is also a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (completed his another Postdoctoral Fellowship in the African Humanities Programme with Residency at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 2021\u20132022). Abba won the\u00a0 Nigeria-LNG Prize for Literary Criticism 2019 as well as the Association of Nigerian Authors Prizes for Literary Criticism for both 2019 and 2022. Author of the novel\u00a0The Ugly Queen<\/em>, and the plays\u00a0Lunatic on the Throne<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Blood Price<\/em>, Abba\u2019s research interests cut across the conversations of\u00a0 literature with cultural, ecocritical and archival ecologies. A Lecturer in the Department of English and Literary Studies, Federal University Lokoja, Nigeria, Abba has previously served as the Head, Department of English and Literary Studies, Edwin Clark University, Kiagbodo Nigeria. He received his MA and PhD in Comparative Literature at the\u00a0University of Nigeria, Nsukka<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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