Session Details

Monday, 29 December

560. Reconstructing the Past in Recent African Literature

1:45–3:00 p.m., Foothill F, Marriott

Program arranged by the Division on African Literatures

Presiding: Janice S. Spleth, West Virginia Univ., Morgantown

1. “Gridlock and Political Signification in African Postslavery Narratives,” Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi, Université de Montréal

2. “The Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park: Postcolonial Mythologies and the Reinvention of Anticolonial Struggles,” Cilas Kemedjio, Univ. of Rochester

3. “The Family Archive and the South African Historical Imaginary,” Yianna Liatsos, Univ. of Oklahoma

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