In the Jaws of the Leviathan: Genocide Fiction and Film

Joya Uraizee is Associate Professor of English and International Studies at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri. Some of her research interests include representations of violence in postcolonial fiction and film, the idea of the nation in postcolonial fiction, rewriting postcolonial history, and postcolonial women writers and political fiction. She is the author of This is No Place for a Woman: Nadine Gordimer, Nayantara Sahgal, Buchi Emecheta and the Politics of Gender (Trenton: Africa World Press, 2000). She has also written several articles on Djibril Diop-Mambety's feature film Hyenas, Ngugi wa Thiong'o's novel Petals of Blood, and Jean Rhys' novel Wide Sargasso Sea. In 2008 she was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to teach at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. At Saint Louis University, she has taught courses on genocide and mass violence, postcolonial film, the postcolonial nation, world literature, fiction, drama, women's literature, and composition.