Bella Brodzki

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	United States of America
Title	Professor of Comparative Literature
Affiliation	Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York
Email	bbrodzki@slc.edu
Mailing Address	Sarah Lawrence College One Mead Way Bronxville, New York 10708
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phone: 914-395-2415 fax: 914-395-2662
Countries of Specialization	Nigeria
Research Interests	Critical and cultural theory, autobiography, francophone and anglophone African and Caribbean literature, translation studies.
Publications	"'Changing Masters'": Gender, Genre, and the Discourses of Slavery" in Margaret Higonnet, BORDERWORK: FEMINIST ENGAGEMENTS WITH COMPARATIVE LITERATURE. Cornell University Press, 1994. [This article compares discourses on slavery and analyzes the structures and themes of Buchi Emecheta's novel THE SLAVE GIRL as an African slave narrative.] "'History, Cultural Memory, and The Tasks of Translation in T. Obinkaram Echewa's I SAW THE SKY CATCH FIRE." PMLA Volume 114, n. 2, March 1999. [This article reads Echewa's novel alongside Walter Benjamin's essay, "The Task of the Translator." It views Benjamin's theory of translation as survival as a model for understanding the processes of intergenerational and intercultural transmission as performed in the Nigerian narrative and examines the intersections among colonialism, anthropology and translation.]
Keywords	critical and cultural theory ; autobiography ; literature (francophone, anglophone, Caribbean)