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L’Afro-pessimisme:
actualité et enjeux
Wednesday, November 12
4:30 PM
Humanities 401
Boubacar Boris Diop
Senegalese writer Boubacar Boris Diop will talk
about the legacies of afropessimism theories from the early nineties
to contemporary discourses about Africa in Western and African media,
politicians’ discourses, and African intellectuals’
positions.
Boubacar Boris Diop is a major writer, playwright, journalist and
essayist from Senegal. His novels include Le temps de Tamango (1981),
Les tambours de la mémoire (1991), Les traces de la meute
(1993), L’impossible innocence (2004), and Kaveena (2006).
In 1998, Diop participated in a project called “Duty of Memory:
Writing about Rwanda” sponsored by Fest’Africa in France.
His novel, Murambi (2000), was translated in English as Murambi:
The Book of Bones, (Indiana University Press, 2006). It will be
staged in New York City in 2009. Diop has also written short stories,
plays (Thiaroye, 1981, and Grandakar-usine) and essays, L’Afrique
au-delà du miroir (2007), Ecris et tais-toi (2006), and in
collaboration with Odile Tobner-Biyidi and François-Xavier
Verschave, Négrophobie (2005). He wrote a novel in Wolof,
Domi Goolo in 2004 and performed a reading of it with the Senegalese
Association of the Twin Cities at Macalester in April 2005.
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