l'Afrique

La Barbade

Professor of Francophone African and Caribbean Literature.

University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados

kahiudi.mabana@cavehill.uwi.edu

Department of Language, Linguistics and Literature
The University of the West Indies
Cave Hill Campus
Barbados

phone: (1 246) 417-4414
fax: (1 246) 424-0634

Congo, DR Congo, Senegal; Ivory Coast; Africa, Caraïbe

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°

African Novel in French, Criticism and Mythopoetics of the Central African Francophone Novel,
Language of African Writers.

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)

Francophone African and Caribbean Literature, Francophonie, Mythopoetics ; Literary Theory.