By Gibson Ncube This article analyses how contemporary writers of Maghrebian descent make use of autofiction to make visible queer desires and sexualities which exist in a perpetual state of marginalization. Using autofiction, a genre of literary expression which has Read More …
Author: Alexis Langendorf
Blackness blurred: (un)belonging, kinship, and métissage in Marie NDiaye’s Ladivine
By Polo B. Moji This article examines elusive freedom and black (un)belonging in France through the work of Marie NDiaye, a prize-winning playwright and author, whose controversial denunciation of the “monstrosity” of President Nicholas Sarkozy’s France in 2009 coincided with Read More …
Of freedom and literature in Africa and the diaspora
By Phyllis Clark Taoua & Grace A. Musila This introduction to a special issue on freedom presents a set of original essays that reflect critically on the idea of freedom in relation to specific literary texts from Africa and the Read More …
Comicalités Special Issue ⎻ Comics and Ecopolitics
This special issue invites considerations of comics’ ecopolitical potential. Ecopolitics, and the intersections between environmentalism and other political struggles for justice, have taken on renewed urgency in an era now widely known as the Anthropocene, a term that has been contested for its universalism as ‘the Age of Man’ and its erasure of the ways in which imperialism and inequalities have marked this new geological era.
Journal of African Cinemas ⎻ “Artistic Epistemologies: Black Cinema and the Idea of Africa
Full CFP description: Black Cinema and the Idea of Africa: Journal of African Cinemas CFP The Journal of African Cinemas website: https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-african-cinemas#call-for-papers
ACTIO NOVA: Journal of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature ⎻ “Instances of agency and agonism in postcolonial black-African literature”
ACTIO NOVA ⎻ Journal of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature Monograph 6 ⎻ “Instances of agency and agonism in postcolonial black-African literature: (trans)formations and (trans)mutations” Two of the most striking characteristics of the literary creation carried out by black-African writers Read More …
Journal of African Cinemas ⎻ Bongo Movies: A Study of the New Swahili Cinema
The Volume aims at describing and analyzing the ways in which Bongo movies narratives locate its identities and form, and critically examine the underlying operating principles behind its aesthetics, its affects (distribution) and how its specific constitution performs discourse. It Read More …
African Literature Today (ALT) 42: Oral and Written African Poetry and Poetics
African Literature Today plans to publish a special issue (ALT 42) with a focus on “Poetry and Poetics” and hereby calls for well researched articles for the volume. The issue seeks to appraise crucial developments in the broad field of Read More …
Mashariki (Eastern African) Literary and Cultural Studies Conference
Aesthetics and Interpretative Practices across East African Literary and Cultural Imaginaries The 6th Mashariki (Eastern African) Literary and Cultural Studies Conference Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda August 24-26, 2023 The 6th Mashariki (Eastern African) Literary and Cultural Studies Conference comes Read More …
Sistah Sistah Foundation: African Women’s Tales
Sista Sistah Foundation is excited to announce a new project: An African Feminist anthology meant to celebrate and highlight African women through creative storytelling. The creation of the anthology is aimed to tell African stories through African voices especially womxn Read More …