l'Afrique

États-Unis d'Amérique

Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Columbia University, New York, New York

jrs272@columbia.edu

Columbia University
602 Philosophy Hall
1150 Amsterdam Avenue, MC 4927
New York, New York 10027 USA

phone: 212 854-6433

Postcolonial literatures of Africa and Latin America ; human rights and
narrative theory; 20th-century ethnic and third world literatures.

Teaches and publishes in the fields of postcolonial
literature and theory, African, Caribbean, and Latin American literatures,
postcolonialism, narrative theory, human rights, and 20th-century ethnic
and third world literatures.

2007. Human rights, Inc.: the world novel, narrative form, and
international law. New York: Fordham University Press.

2006. "Enabling fictions and novel subjects: the Bildungsroman and
international human rights law." PMLA: Publication of the Modern
Language Association of America. Oct 121(5) 1405

2004. "Master plans: designing (national) allegories of urban space and
metropolitan subjects for postcolonial Kenya," Research in African
literatures Spring 35(1) 30

Africa ; Latin America ; world literature ; human rights ; narrative theory ; post-colonialism ; ...