Contact Nathalie Etoke

Education:

B.A., M.A., University of Lille III, France;
Diplôme d'études approfondies, University of Cergy-Pontoise;
Ph.D., Northwestern University

Nathalie Etoke
Assistant Professor of French and Africana Studies

Specializations:

• Africana studies (film, literature, philosophy)
• LGBT in the Afro-diasporic context
• Melancholia Africana (loss, mourning and survival in Africa, America and the Caribbean)
• Cultural studies (immigration, post-Colonial French identities, French Hip Hop, urban films)

Nathalie Etoke joined the Connecticut College faculty in 2009 as an assistant professor of French and Africana studies.

She teaches the following courses: Pensez Francais I: French Cultural Experience and Contemporary Issues in Francophonie; Pensez Francais I: French Cultural Experience; Black Blanc Beur Cinema/Literature; and French 407: La Caraïbe Francophone hier et aujourd'hui ( Slavery, memory and identity through literature and film).

Her recent books are titled Melancholia africana, l'indispensable dépassement de la condition noire, Paris, Eds du Cygne, September, 2010, and L’écriture du corps féminin dans la littérature de l’Afrique francophone au Sud du Sahara, Paris, L’Harmattan, June, 2010.

• "Mariama Barry, Ken Bugul, Calixthe Beyala and the Politics of Female Homoeroticism in Sub-Saharan, Francophone African Literature," Research in African Literatures, 2009, 40: 2, 173-189.
• "Black Blanc Beur: Ma France à moi.” Nouvelles Études Francophones, 24:1, Printemps 2009, 157-171.
• "Au bout du petit matin, j’ai la force de regarder demain," French Politics Culture and Society, Volume 27, 76-80, Winter 2009.
• "L’onomastique comme poétique de la (dé)construction identitaire dans Tels des astres éteints de Léonora Miano," International Journal of Francophone Studies, Volume 12: 4 (2009): 613-638.
• "Writing the Woman’s Body in Francophone African Literature,"Codesria Bulletin, Number 3 & 4 (2006): 41-44.
• "Mongo Béti et Les Mythologies Postcoloniales: Héritier et Inspirateur," Présence Francophone: Revue Internationale de Langue et de Littérature 60 (2004): 90-98.
• "Karmen Gei: Une Censure à l’Arme Blanche," l’Arbre à Palabres 14 (October 2003): 92-97.
• "Calixthe Beyala et Ken Bugul: Histoires et Regards de Femmes sur l’Afrique Contemporaine," Africultures 35 (2001): 35-39.

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