l'Afrique

États-Unis d'Amérique

Professor of Comparative Literature

Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York

bbrodzki@slc.edu

Sarah Lawrence College
One Mead Way
Bronxville, New York 10708

phone: 914-395-2415
fax: 914-395-2662

Nigeria

Critical and cultural theory, autobiography, francophone and anglophone
African and Caribbean literature, translation studies.

"'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.]

critical and cultural theory ; autobiography ; literature (francophone, anglophone, Caribbean)