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DESCRIPTION:Naminata Diabate is an associate professor of comparative liter
 ature at Cornell University. A scholar of gender\, sexuality\, and race in 
 Africa and African diaspora studies with linguistic expertise in Malinké\, 
 French\, English\, Nouchi\, and Spanish\, her work seeks to redefine how we
  understand specific forms of embodied agency that determine the neoliberal
  present in global Africa. Taking as her archives literary fiction\, cinema
 \, visual arts\, digital media\, and field research\, Diabate’s most recent
  work has appeared in Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 46 (2020)\, 
 Routledge Handbook of African Literature (2019)\, African Literature Today 
 ALT 36 (2018)\, Critical Interventions (2017)\, Research in African Literat
 ures (2016)\, and Fieldwork in the Humanities (2016). Her book\, Naked Agen
 cy: Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa\, was published by Duke Unive
 rsity Press in 2020. Currently\, she is working on two monographs\, “The Pl
 easure Turn in Neoliberal Africa” and “Digital Insurgencies and Bodily Doma
 ins.”
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SUMMARY:The ALA Lecture Series presents: On Naked Agency and Open Reading\,
  Naminata Diabate
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 ed_agency_and_open_reading_naminata_diabate
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