Anouar Majid to speak at Yale conference on writers from former French colonies in the African diaspora

Anouar Majid, Ph.D., director of the Center for Global Humanities and associate provost for Global Initiatives, has been invited to participate in a Yale University conference titled "Beyond French: New Languages for African Diasporic Literature." The conference, to be held March 29-30, 2013, will focus on the literature produced by writers from former French colonies in both North and Sub-Saharan Africa who have settled in countries other than France and have been writing in languages other than French.

Composing their works in German, Italian, Dutch, Catalan, Spanish, English and other languages, these writers suggest new cultural patterns and questions. The organizers have invited several authors, and the conference will conclude with a conversation with Majid and two other writers.

 

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