Presentations

1: ‘Cette chute vers les bas-fonds des belles-lettres’: Discursive Paradoxes in Black Bazar

Emelyn Lih, New York U

2: ‘Traduire le silence’: Endurance and Ambivalence in Alain Mabanckou’s Poetry

Khalid Lyamlahy, U of Chicago

3: The Performative Authorship of Alain Mabanckou: Universality and Commitment

Kristen Stern, Davidson C

4: What Does Mabanckou Stand For? The Langue of the Writer and the Parole of the African

Eric Tsimi, U of Virginia

Presider

Lia Brozgal, U of California, Los Angeles