"Genre as Mnemonic Device" in the Detective Fiction of Todd Downing
A talk in the Literature Matters series by Dr. Jenna Hunnef (PhD), assistant professor in the Department of English
A talk in the Literature Matters series by Dr. Jenna Hunnef (PhD), assistant professor in the University of Saskatchewan's Department of English, on the detective fiction of Choctaw author Todd Downing.
Date: Friday, Feb. 12
Time: 3–4 pm
Location: Online via Zoom
Free and open to the public
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About this event
A citizen of the Choctaw Nation, Todd Downing was a prolific author of detective novels in the 1930s and 1940s. This talk will discuss how his use of genre functions as a kind of mnemonic device, capable of recalling the European invasion of the Americas and the ongoing theft of Indigenous lands, bodies, and material cultures by settler-colonial states.