Moustapha Diop

Visiting Assistant Professor
Sub-Saharan African Francophone Studies

651-696-6490

El Hadji Diop’s research is focused on cross-media analysis, especially the film and literature nexus, the comparative semiotics of cultures, textual pragmatics, and Afrophone creative writing in translation.

Diop has completed several translation projects in English, including the seminal biography of filmmaker Sembene Ousmane, Ousmane Sembene: The Making of a Militant-Artist, by Samba Gadjigo (Indiana University Press, 2010), and Doomi Golo: The Hidden Notebooks (Michigan State University Press, 2016), a tridimensional translation attentive to the multilingual texture and dialogic élan of Boris Diop’s debut Wolof novel.

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PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

  2023

  • Book Chapter. “Revisiting the ‘Domestic Ethnography’ Approach in Khady Sylla’s Une Fenêtre ouverte.” In: Sada Niang, Suzanne Crosta and Alexie Tcheuyap (eds.), Beyond Representation. Francophone Women Documentary Filmmaking. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, p. 65-94.

https://muse.jhu.edu/book/112145 https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/edited_volume/chapter/3464072

  • Book Chapter. « Marginalisation des langues africaines et théorie de la traduction postcoloniale », in Robert Viau et Cécilia Francis, Voix subalternes et créa(c)tives : explorer l’inventivité de la marge francophone, Montréal, Presses de l’Université de Montréal (in press).

2022 

  • Book Reel Resistance: The Cinema of Jean-Marie Teno, by Melissa Thackway and Jean-Marie Teno. New York, James Currey, 2020, xxvi, 237p.

Reel Resistance – The Cinema of Jean-Marie Teno https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00083968.2022.2109869

  • Film Fanon Yesterday, Today by Hassane Mezine

https://africanfilmny.org/articles/fanon-yesterday-today-review/

2021 

Essay. “From Environmental Degradation to the Waste Economy of Postcolonial Desire. Eco-Critical Footprints in Touki Bouki and Hyenas.” International Journal of Francophone Studies 23.3 (Fall 2021): 173-86. https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/ijfs/2020/00000023/f0020003;jsessionid=3q54rppp9nc2

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2020 

  • “Postcolonial Amnesia. The ‘Vanishing Present’ of the Past in Le Cercle des noyés.” FRAMEWORK 61.2 (Fall Issue): 46-69.

2019

  • Essay. « Qui est donc l’homme de Barbès? Le problème du ‘nègre’ de l’écriture migrante dans Le Ventre de l’Atlantique, de Fatou Présence Francophone 92/1, pp. 98-120. https://macalester.on.worldcat.org/oclc/8187870276
  • Book Review. “Translating Frantz Fanon Across Continents and Languages,” by Batchelor, Kathryn and Sue-Ann Harding (eds.). London, UK: Routledge, 258 pages. ISBN: 978- 1-138-65873-8: Hardback. 155.00 USD.

https://doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2019.1582851.

2018

  • Essay. « Une Fenêtre ouverte, de Khady Sylla : ‘éthique de la rencontre’ ou récit d’une ‘troublante proximité’ ? ». Nouvelles Études Francophones 1, pp. 60-78. (https://macalester.on.worldcat.org/oclc/7844582892)

 

PUBLISHED TRANSLATIONS

2022

  • Boubacar Boris Diop, “An Ordinary Monday Morning,” Words Without Borders, June 27

https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2022-06/an-ordinary-monday-morning- boubacar-boris-diop-el-hadji-moustapha-diop-bojana-coulibaly/

2020

  • Ousmane Sembène. “The Artist and the Revolution: Interview with Tahar ”

FRAMEWORK 61.2 (Fall Issue): 12-22.

  • Ousmane Sembène, “Freedom.” FRAMEWORK 2 (Fall Issue): 34-9
  • Ousmane Sembène, “Statement at ” Black Camera; The New Series 12.1 (2020): 141-156
    • 2979/blackcamera.12.1.12

2019

  • Fanon, Frantz: „Im Kampf gegen den Kolonialismus stehen alle afrikanischen Staaten zusammen“, in: Elisabeth Büttner / Viktoria Metschl (Ed.): Figurationen von Solidarität. Algerien, das Kino und die Rhythmen des anti-kolonialen Internationalismus, Berlin, Vorwerk8 2019, pp. 72-74.
  • Fanon, Frantz: „Der Weg zum Weltfrieden führt über die nationale Unabhängigkeit“, in: Elisabeth Büttner / Viktoria Metschl (Ed.): Figurationen von Solidarität. Algerien, das Kino und die Rhythmen des anti-kolonialen Internationalismus, Berlin, Vorwerk8 2019, 111-113.

2018

  • “Good Night, Prince Koroma,” by Boubacar Boris In: Ivor Agyeman-Duah (ed.), The Gods Who Send Us Gifts: An Anthology of African Short-Stories, pp. 77-95.
  • “A Labour of Love and Hate,” by Richard Ali A In: Ivor Agyeman-Duah (ed.), The Gods Who Send Us Gifts: An Anthology of African Short-Stories, pp. 196-200.

2016

  • Doomi Golo – The Hidden Notebooks (co-translated with Vera Wülfing-Leckie), Michigan State University Press, “African Humanities and the Arts” series.

2011

  • English version of the Sahel Opera Production Catalogue, for the Prince Claus Foundation (Holland)

2010