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Literatures of Africa
 

With faculty specializing in literatures of Africa in Arabic, English, French, Hausa, Portuguese, and Spanish Rutgers is an extraordinary center for the study of literatures of Africa. Rutgers also has unusual strength in African linguistics.

Faculty whose work explores the literatures and languages of Africa include: Richard Serrano, Ousseina Alidou, Abena Busia, Renée Larrier, Susan Martin-Marquez, Akinbiyi Akinlabi, César Braga-Pinto, Yeon-Soo Kim, and Phillip Rothwell. For more information see the Program in Comparative Literature (http://complit.rutgers.edu) or contact Richard Serrano (732.932.8223 or rserrano@rci.rutgers.edu).

 
Feminist Discourse and Spanish Cinema: Sight Unseen; Susan Martin-Marquez; author; Oxford University Press; 2000 Susan Martin-Marquez and Nigerian filmmaker Branwen OkpakoPostmodern Nationalist: Truth, Orality, and Gender in the Work of Mia Couto; Phillip Rothwell; author; Bucknell University Press; 2004A Thousand Flowers: Structural Adjustment and the Struggle for Education in Africa; Ousseina Alidou; co-editor; Africa World Press; 2000
Understanding Yoruba Life and Culture; Akinbiyi Akinlabi; contributor; Africa World PressLusosex: Gender and Sexuality in the Portuguese-Speaking World; César Braga-Pinto; contributor; University of Minnesota Press; 2002Professor César Braga-Pinto and his students at the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique, where he taught literature courses from February to December, 2003. Professor Braga-Pinto was a Fulbright Scholar and undertook research on colonial Mozambique literature.The Masters and the Slaves; César Braga-Pinto; contributor; Palgrave Macmillan; 2005New Dimensions in African Linguistics and Languages; Akinbiyi Akinlabi; contributor; Africa World Press; 2000
Beyond Survival: African Literature and the Search for New Life; Abena Busia; co-editor; Africa World Press; 1998 Abena BusiaFrancophone Women Writers of Africa and the Caribbean; Renee Larrier; author; University Press of Florida; 2000Neither a Borrower: Forging Traditions in French, Chinese and Arabic Poetry (Studies in Comparative Literature Series #7); Richard Serrano; author; European Humanities Research Centre, University of Oxford; 2002
 
 

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