BOOK REVIEW: Paradise Deferred: Structural Violence, Neocolonialism, and the Politics of Survival in Iyorwuese Hagher’s A Portrait of Paradise

Reviewer: Rita Iorbo, PhD A Portrait of Paradise crafts a world that is fictional in name but unmistakably real in feeling. Sofalia, the novel’s setting, is not merely a backdrop—it is a living, breathing environment shaped by inequalities, excesses, and neglect. From the very first pages, the reader is drawn into a society where gleaming […]

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