Frieda Ekotto
Cameroonian writer
Why Is Frieda Ekotto Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Frieda Ekotto is a Francophone African woman novelist and literary critic. She is Professor of AfroAmerican and African Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan and is currently the Hunting Family Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities. She is best known for her novels, which focus on gender and sexuality in Sub-Saharan Africa, and her work on the writer Jean Genet, particular her political analysis of his prison writing, and his impact as a race theorist in the Francophone world. Her research and teaching focuses on literature, film, race and law in the Francophone world, spanning France, Africa, the Caribbean and the Maghreb.
Frieda Ekotto's Published Works
Published Works
- Rethinking African Cultural Production (2015) (10)
- Shamelessness as a Creative Mechanism in Jean Genet's Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs and Dany Laferrière's Comment faire l' amour avec un Nègre sans se fatiguer (2010) (6)
- Genet's The Blacks:‘And Why Does One Laugh at a Negro?’ (2004) (6)
- RHYTHM AND KNOWLEDGE AFRICAN ART AS PHILOSOPHY: SENGHOR, BERGSON, AND THE IDEA OF NEGRITUDE BY SOULEYMANE BACHIR DIAGNE, TRANSLATED BY CHIKE JEFFERS Seagull Books, 2011 (2007 French original) (2011) (5)
- Introduction: Rethinking african cultural production (2015) (4)
- Grey Matter by Kivu Ruhorahoza (review) (2013) (3)
- Frantz Fanon in the Era of Black Lives Matter (2020) (2)
- From Women Loving Women in Africa to Jean Genet and Race: A Conversation with Frieda Ekotto (2009) (2)
- L'écriture carcérale et le discours juridique chez Jean Genet (2001) (2)
- Framing homosexual identities in Cameroonian literature (2016) (2)
- Against Representation: Countless Hours for a Professor (2012) (1)
- Language and Confinement in Francophone Women Writers (2010) (1)
- Articulating difference: When I was ethnic. A tribute to Lawrence Schehr (2012) (1)
- Book review (1993) (1)
- Rhythm and Knowledge (2013) (0)
- Nimrod: Selected Writings (2018) (0)
- On Memory and Retelling: The Poetic of Celebration in Francophone Literature (2003) (0)
- TWO DOCUMENTARY FILMS (2013) (0)
- Writers across Borders (2020) (0)
- Paris My Paradise dir. by Eléonore Yaméogo, and: Sisters in Law dir. by Kim Longinotto and Florence Aysi (review) (2013) (0)
- Femmes cinéastes d'Afrique et des Caraïbes: le dur désir de créer dans un monde effarant (2009) (0)
- Calixte Beyala ou la réécriture de la littérature coloniale française (2010) (0)
- La mondialisation, l'immigration et le cinéma africain d'expression française: pour un devenir moderne (2009) (0)
- Une poétique de la mémoire : lire Matière grise, le film du réalisateur rwandais Kivu Ruhorahoza (2011) (2015) (0)
- Entretien avec Frieda EKOTTO, professeur de littérature comparée et d’études africaines (2014) (0)
- Loin des yeux près du corps : entre théorie et la création (2012) (0)
- Une relecture artistique et esthétique des spectres de l'Histoire (2014) (0)
- La diaspora (2019) (0)
- Soraya lapidée par les pierres et par les mots (2016) (0)
- How to Reinvent Your Body in Cameroonian Women's Writing (1994) (0)
- A Reflection on Gender and Sexuality as Transnational Archive of African Modernity (2020) (0)
- Don't Whisper Too Much and Portrait of a Young Artiste from Bona Mbella (2019) (0)
- Rendition of Proper Names in Translation: Transcription or Transliteration? (2018) (0)
- Countermodernism and Francophone Literary Culture: The Game of Slipknot (review) (2001) (0)
- Geometry and Jean Genet: Shaping the Subject. By Joanne Brueton (2023) (0)
- An Unsavory Saint—A Deidealized Genet and the Future of Queer Studies (2021) (0)
- Introduction to World Literature 1771 to 1919 (2019) (0)
- Bridge Essay: Colonial Encounters in the Worlding of Literature (2019) (0)
- Shakespeare in African Dress: Negotiating a New Blacack Identity (2015) (0)
- Are we doing enough in Diabetes Care? Lessons from a Hermeneutic Phenomenological Investigation (2018) (0)
- Paris My Paradise/Sisters in Law (2013) (0)
- Aimé Césaire in the Era of Black Lives Matter (2019) (0)
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