African Literature Topic of French Department Lecture
April 4, 2010
Cecile Dolisane-Ebossé, a professor at Cameroon’s University of Yaoundé and currently a Fulbright Scholar at Emory University, will present a lecture titled “Cultural Identity and Political Violence in African Literature” on Tuesday, April 6, at 8 p.m. in the Red Pit. Presented by the French Department, the lecture is sponsored by the Dean of Faculty Office and is free and open to the public.
Dolisane-Ebossé will discuss “how a loss of sense of history and social structures in post-colonial Africa has lead to vulnerability and abuse, how revisiting pre-colonial social organizations will help reverse the loss of identity and why African women can and should inspire the fight against corruption and violence.”
Dolisane-Ebossé received her Ph.D. in literature from the University of Toulouse, France. The author of articles on African and African American literatures, she has been teaching in Cameroon since 2005.
Dolisane-Ebossé will discuss “how a loss of sense of history and social structures in post-colonial Africa has lead to vulnerability and abuse, how revisiting pre-colonial social organizations will help reverse the loss of identity and why African women can and should inspire the fight against corruption and violence.”
Dolisane-Ebossé received her Ph.D. in literature from the University of Toulouse, France. The author of articles on African and African American literatures, she has been teaching in Cameroon since 2005.
