“With the Exception of [Ali] Banana:” Second World War Bildung in the Burmese Jungle in Biyi Bandele’s

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specialising in Nigerian literature, which was the focus of his PhD dissertation, entitled "Itineraries of a Genre. Variations on the Bildungsroman in Contemporary Nigerian Fiction" (2019). He has published various articles and book chapters on the rewritings of the Bildungsroman genre in contemporary Nigerian fiction, mobility studies, refugee literature, and LGBTQ studies. His research interests include postcolonial literatures, decoloniality, transnationalism, transculturalism, gender studies, ecopoetics, ecofeminism, gender studies, and the ethics and aesthetics of violence in African literatures written in English. "With the Exception of [Ali] Banana:" Second World War Bildung in the Burmese...