Felicity Palmer

Domaine de recherche	l'Afrique
Pays de résidence	États-Unis d'Amérique
Titre	Assistant Professor
Affiliation	University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Adresse électronique	felicity.palmer@usm.edu
Adresse	Department of English University of Southern Mississippi 118 College Drive Box 5037 Hattiesburg, Mississippi 39406 USA
Téléphone/Télécopie	601 266 4259
Pays de spécialisation	Zimbabwe ; Cameroon.
Recherche	Anglophone and Francophone African literature, postcolonial literature, African women writers. Her doctoral dissertation compared the novels of two contemporary African women writers, Yvonne Vera from Zimbabwe and Calixthe Beyala from Cameroon. She focuses on the authors' depictions of women's experiences of sexual pleasure and trauma, exploring the unexpected connection between these experiences and post-independence questions of freedom and modernity in contemporary Africa.
Enseignement	Anglophone and Francophone African literature, postcolonial literature, African women writers.
Publications	"Sex in the Postcolonial City: Desire, Kinship, and Freedom in Yvonne Vera's Without a Name," Stichproben: Vienna Journal of African Studies, No. 11, December 2006, p. 27-44.
Mots-clés	Yvonne Vera ; Calixthe Beyala ; postcolonial literature ; African literature ; women writers.