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Conference Program
Updated 10/24!

Conference Papers

conference papers

The African Novels and the Politics of Form Conference is free and open to all. The conference format is unique and will consist of the discussion of papers, rather than their presentation, so you are expected to have already read the papers when you arrive for the conference. To gain access to the papers you must pre-register by sending an email with your name, title, place of business, address, and phone number to: afrnovel@pitt.edu

Once we receive your email, we will send a return reply with information on how to access the conference papers. If you have any questions, please contact the University of Pittsburgh's English Department at 412-624-6506.

Conference Presenters
Koffi Anyinefa Haverford College “Scandals: Francophone African Novels and Identity”	David Attwell University of York "Coetzee’s Estrangement"
Nicholas Brown University of Illinois at Chicago "African Literature, Modernism, and the Problem of Political Subjectivity: Pepetela and William Gaddis"	Brenda Cooper University of Cape Town “Birthed in the Third Space”: Myth and Language in Diasporic Women Writers of African Background. Or “The Frog who dreamed she was an Opera Singer”.
Eleni Coundouriotis University of Connecticut "War and the Realist Novel in Africa"	Olakunle George Brown University "Missionary Moments: Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka"
Waïl S. Hassan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Leila Aboulela and the Poetics of the Islamic Novel	Roberta Hatcher University of Pittsburgh The Irruption of the Referent in Francophone African Narrative: Trauma and the Postcolonial Nation
Ronald A.T. Judy University of Pittsburgh "What About Magical Realism in the Recent Arabic Novel?"	Luís Madureira University of Wisconsin, Madison The ‘Quasi-Object’ of (National) Identity: Popular Illusions and Official Dreams of Emancipation in Mia Couto’s Cronicando
Mohamed-Salah Omri University of Exeter, U.K. Local Constructions of the Novel: maqama and Arabic literature	Anjali Prabhu Wellsley College ""*The Seductive Text: L’Amour, la fantasia"*
Raji Vallury University of New Mexico *Walking the Tightrope between Memory and History: Metaphor in Tahar Djaout’s L’invention du désert* <Plot Summary>