Africa

Canada

Assistant Professor

Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

lm23@qsilver.queensu.ca

French Studies
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario
K7L 3N6
Canada

phone: 613-545-2093
fax: 613-545-6552

Senegal; Togo

My dissertation -- recently published as a book -- focuses on Senegalese
women's autobiographical discourses (Wolof and Francophone). I explore
the construction of francophone women's gender and identity through the
matrix of autobiographical discourses. On-going research focuses on the
influences of Diaspora cultures on contemporary African literatures and
cultural forms (musical and other) and on the construction of childhood
through children's literatures.

Francophone and French Studies, African languages and literature,
Comparative Literature, folklore, Gender Studies, literary theory

Selfish Gifts: Senegalese Women's Autobiographical Discourses. Albany,
New York: State University of New York Press, 2000.

"Le cadastre de la tradition: Propriété intellectuelle et
oralité en Afrique occidentale." Mots pluriels. 8 (october 1998)
[http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP898lmn.html]

"Togo" and "Senouvo Agbota Zinsou, Togolese Playwright in Exile" in
Censorship: An International Encyclopedia. Ed. Derek Jones. London:
Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, forthcoming.

"Nafissatou Diallo." Postcolonial African Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical
Sourcebook. Eds. Pushpa Parekh and Fatou Siga Jagne. Greenwood Press,
1998.

"Autobiographical Subjects." Research in African Literatures 28/2 (1997)
83-101.

Review of Manthia Diawara, African Cinema: Politics and Culture. Cinefocus
3 (1995) 43-45.

"That Which Was Empty Shall Be Filled: The Female Autobiographical Self
and The Other in Sindiwe Magona's TO MY CHILDREN'S CHILDREN." American
Comparative Literature Association Bulletin 24/2 (1993) 122-138.

"Teaching in the Multicultural Tempest." College Literature 19/3 (1993)
195-201.

Forthcoming:

"Back From Babylon: Popular Musical Cultures of teh Diaspora, Youth
Culture and Identity in Francophone West Africa." Music, Popular Culture,
Identities." Ed. Richard Young. Amsterdam: Rodopi, forthcoming.

"The Black and the White: Race and Oral Poetry in Mauritania." The Desert
Shore: Literatures of the African Sahel. Ed. Christopher Wise. Boulder:
Lynne Rienner, forthcoming.

"Initiations: L'aventure ambiguk et l'espace liminaire de la lecture."
Milanges en l'honneur de Janos Riesz. Ed. H.-J. Lisebrink and Papa Samba
Diop.

"Ourika en famille." French Prose in 1999. Ed. Michael Bishop. Amsterdam:
Rodopi.

Gender; Folklore; Culture.