Radiant Matter: Technologies of Light and the Long Shadow of French Nuclear Imperialism in the Algerian Sahara

JILL JARVIS is Assistant Professor in the Department of French at Yale University, where she is on the Councils of African Studies and of Middle East Studies; she is also a founding member of the interdisciplinary Desert Futures Collective. Her first book, Decolonizing Memory: Algeria & the Politics of Testimony, was published by Duke University Press in 2021. She is at work on a second book, Signs in the Desert: Aesthetic Cartographies of the Sahara. Other writing appears in New Literary History, PMLA, The Journal of North African Studies, Yale French Studies, Expressions maghrébines, and elsewhere.