Tade thompson rosewater trilogy5/31/2023 As human bodies and minds become more thoroughly enmeshed in the bionetworks, surveillance, data collection, augmented realities, cyborg hybridizations, and genetic transformations wrought by the aliens, the global masses all become subject to imperial desire and power. At the same time, the biotechnological instruments of this new alien invasion signal a deepened and expanded colonization, one that takes place at the scale of both the planetary and the cellular, and that threatens to ensnare and enslave the entire human population within the machinations of Empire. Abstract : In its depiction of alien invaders colonizing human bodies in Nigeria, Tade Thompson's Wormwood Trilogy (2016-2019) at one level enacts a second contact narrative that recapitulates Africa's history with European imperialism and slavery.
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