“Pleasure and the African Text”
Ainehi Edoro
Assistant Professor
Marquette University
Time and Location
12:00pm, 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI
Description
Publishers, scholars, and critics have always encouraged readers to engage with African literary texts as documents that, first and foremost, address social and political issues. My presentation challenges this utilitarian and quasi-anthropological value placed on African writing.
Bio
Ainehi Edoro is an assistant professor at Marquette University where she teaches global anglophone literatures. She received her doctorate from Duke University. She is the editor of brittlepaper.com and was recently featured in New African Magazine’s 100 most influential African of 2016 list for her work in online publishing.