Politics of Criticism, Criticism of Politics ⎻ On Being an Academic and an Intellectual in the Postcolony

This conference, in honor of Ambroise Kom, is an invitation to reflect on the decolonization of methodological approaches, a sine qua non for restoring the dignity of African peoples and a prerequisite for the emergence of a new humanism in Africa. We propose engaging in a reflection inspired by his work, through a focus on what might be called a form of inopportune thought, which intersects with the reverberations of a reflection that, praising dissidence, calls for the duty of indignation.

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.

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 …