This dissertation examines the manner in which queer African speculative fiction short stories navigate the other – that which is perceived as not belonging, or being outside of what is considered ―normal‖ – and how this ...

In this thesis, I make a case for feminist methods of reading postcolonial crime fiction by using Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s novel, Dust, in order to investigate the gendered construction of criminality in Kenya. While Dust ...

This dissertation analyses three environmental texts from the Global South, focusing on presentations of environmental decline in the neoliberal era as inherently connected to histories of colonial oppression in the past ...