Kahiudi Claver Mabana

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	Barbados
Title	Professor of Francophone African and Caribbean Literature.
Affiliation	University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados
Email	kahiudi.mabana@cavehill.uwi.edu
Mailing Address	Department of Language, Linguistics and Literature The University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus Barbados
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phone: (1 246) 417-4414 fax: (1 246) 424-0634
Countries of Specialization	Congo, DR Congo, Senegal; Ivory Coast; Africa, Caraïbe
Education	BA; MA French Language, Linguistics and Philosophy; PhD French - University of Fribourg (Switzerland) BA Theology - Pontificia Università Urbaniana (Rome, Italy) BA Philosophy - Grand Séminaire Mayidi (DR Congo°
Research Interests	African Novel in French, Criticism and Mythopoetics of the Central African Francophone Novel, Language of African Writers.
Publications	L'univers mythique de Tchicaya U Tam'si à travers son œuvre en prose (Bern; NY: Peter Lang, 1998) Des transpositions francophones du mythe de Chaka (Bern, NY: Peter Lang, 2002), Ecritures en situation postcoloniale: Francophonies périphériques (Saarbucken: EUE, 2013) Du mythe à la littérature: une lecture de textes africains et caribéens (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2013). Coeditor of Hispanic and Francophone Studies Contemporary Perspectives, in coll. with Victor Simpson (Barbados, Dept. of LLL, 2009), Negritude: Legacy and Present Relevance (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009), Antillanité, Créolité, Littérature-monde (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013). La sorcières aux tendres bombes (Cergy, ILV, 2013)
Keywords	Francophone African and Caribbean Literature, Francophonie, Mythopoetics ; Literary Theory.