R Remembering MARYSE CONDÉ:
Journey of a Caribbean Writer on the one-year anniversary of her passing.
Maryse Condé (1934-2024) was a novelist, critic, and playwright from Guadeloupe, and an academic whose career took her to West Africa, Europe, and the United States: she taught at universities in Guinea Bissau, Ghana, Senegal, France, and the United States. Her last faculty appointment was as Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Columbia University in New York. Her work explores issues of race, gender, colonialism, displacement, and the African diaspora. She is the author of many books, including, I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem (1992),The Journey of a Caribbean Writer (2014), and The Gospel According to the New World (2021)
Wednesday, April 2, 2025, 4:20-5:45 p.m.
246 East Library Wing, Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, Second Floor, South Campus
Defiant Desire: Love, Freedom, and Disorderly Women in the Work of Maryse Condé by Kaiama L. Glover
Known for her provocative and often transgressive approach to writing women’s lives, Maryse Condé has long proposed female characters who insist on the importance of being loved and desired as the very foundations of their humanity. In this talk, Professor Glover considers Condé’s provocative depictions of disorderly women who expect love, even –especially – when the likelihood of receiving it is slim. Glover shows how, in Condé’s work, a woman’s demand for romantic or erotic appreciation can amount to practice of radical selfdetermination in contexts of political and social unfreedom.
KAIAMA L. GLOVER is a professor of African American Studies and French at Yale University and author of ARegardedSelf:CaribbeanWomanhoodandtheEthicsofDisorderlyBeing(Duke UP) and HaitiUnbound:ASpiralistChallengetothePostcolonialCanon(Liverpool UP).
For furthermore details, please contact Professor Sabine Loucif at sabine.loucif@hofstra.edu.
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