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naked agency: GENITAL CURSING AND BIOPOLITICS IN AFRICA

Wednesday, March 3, 2021 at 4:00pm to 5:30pm

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naked agency: GENITAL CURSING AND BIOPOLITICS IN AFRICA

Please join Naminata Diabate for a book Discussion.

Naminata Diabate is associate professor of comparative literature at Cornell University. With linguistic expertise in Malinké, French, English, Nouchi, Spanish, and Latin, she explores questions of gender, sexuality, and race in Africa and the African diaspora. Analyzing novels, films, visual arts, and digital media, Diabate’s most recent work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals, collections of essays, and her book, Naked Agency: Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa (Duke University Press, 2020). Currently, she is working on two monographs, “The Problem of Pleasure in Global Africa” and “Digital Insurgencies and Bodily Domains.”

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Lecture

Departments

Africana Studies and Research Center, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Comparative Literature, Institute for African Development

Tags

diversity, africal, cascal, cashum, lgbtstudiescal, complit, fgsscal

Cost

Free and Open to the Public

Contact E-Mail

dlp254@cornell.edu

Contact Name

Donna Pinnisi

Speaker

Naminata Diabate

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