Fatoumata Seck
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 148276 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Fatoumata Seck |
| NOMBRES | Fatoumata |
| APELLIDO | Seck |
| FIRMA | SECK F |
| AFILIACIONES | Stanford University |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-1775-4953 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 8 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The Senegal Liberations Project
What can the stories of enslaved individuals who actively sought their freedom in colonial Senegal reveal about global histories of freedom and unfreedom in the modern age? How can the analysis of primary documents, such as the Registers of Slave Liberation in Colonial Senegal, unveil new narratives and perspectives on the pathways out of slavery? What insights and collaborative research opportunities can arise from bridging scholars based in Sen…
Introduction
This introduction provides a broad overview to the context of digital humanities projects dealing with enslaved people and frames the debate over the ethics and politics of using the names of enslaved people. For some descendant communities, listing the names of enslaved people contributes to searches for genealogical connections; for other communities where the stigma of enslaved descent still prevails, such projects may do harm. This introducti…
Decolonization and the Underground in Africa
The Underground Lives of Texts
In 1979, the Maoist-inspired cultural movement Front Culturel Sénégalais (FCS) renewed interest in Lamine Senghor's La Violation d'un pays (1927) through the underground republication of this pioneering work. Exploring the material history of La Violation d'un pays through the FCS's repurposing of Senghor's legacy as a key figure of interwar anti-imperialism during the long 1960s-when ongoing decolonization movements and youth protests fueled new…
From Haiti to Congo
This essay explores the early work of Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain in Congo. Despite Comhaire-Sylvain being renowned as Haiti's first woman anthropologist, her life and extensive scholar-ship in Africa have been largely overlooked. Given her unique positionality and formal training in Europe during a period when ethnology relied on empire to assert its utility to the state, Comhaire-Sylvain's work unfolded along colonial fault lines, a dimension this…
The Cultural Underground of Decolonization
The African liberation movements and the early phases of nation-building on the continent, intertwined with the Cold War and the global student movement, left behind an array of textual, visual, and sonic traces that circulated through underground and clandestine networks across Africa and beyond. These cultural products, which include materials in African languages, remain marginalized in studies of African history and arts. This article posits …
Crossing The Atlantic
This article is a comparative study of trickster tales from a Haitian collection (Le Roman de Bouqui, by Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain) and a Senegalese collection (La Belle histoire de Leuk-le-lièvre, by Léopold Sédar Senghor and Abdoulaye Sadji). The analysis traces the transformation the stories underwent when they were transmitted as oral literature to slaves in the New World. Drawing on Maryse Condé's work, I relate Bouqui and Malice, two of the …
Goorgoorlou, the neoliberalhomo senegalensis
Goorgoorlou is the eponymous character of a serialized comic strip that emerged in Senegal, in the midst of neoliberal reforms. As with thousands of Senegalese people, Goorgoorlou lost his job because of the structural adjustment programmes (SAPs). He resorted to odd jobs and other resourceful solutions to make ends meet therefore joining an economy of rupture, based on the informal sector. The social costs of the programmes, brought upon by the …
Goorgoorlou, the neoliberalhomo senegalensis
Goorgoorlou is the eponymous character of a serialized comic strip that emerged in Senegal, in the midst of neoliberal reforms. As with thousands of Senegalese people, Goorgoorlou lost his job because of the structural adjustment programmes (SAPs). He resorted to odd jobs and other resourceful solutions to make ends meet therefore joining an economy of rupture, based on the informal sector. The social costs of the programmes, brought upon by the …
The Cultural Underground of Decolonization
The African liberation movements and the early phases of nation-building on the continent, intertwined with the Cold War and the global student movement, left behind an array of textual, visual, and sonic traces that circulated through underground and clandestine networks across Africa and beyond. These cultural products, which include materials in African languages, remain marginalized in studies of African history and arts. This article posits …
Crossing The Atlantic
This article is a comparative study of trickster tales from a Haitian collection (Le Roman de Bouqui, by Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain) and a Senegalese collection (La Belle histoire de Leuk-le-lièvre, by Léopold Sédar Senghor and Abdoulaye Sadji). The analysis traces the transformation the stories underwent when they were transmitted as oral literature to slaves in the New World. Drawing on Maryse Condé's work, I relate Bouqui and Malice, two of the …
Goorgoorlou, the neoliberalhomo senegalensis
Goorgoorlou is the eponymous character of a serialized comic strip that emerged in Senegal, in the midst of neoliberal reforms. As with thousands of Senegalese people, Goorgoorlou lost his job because of the structural adjustment programmes (SAPs). He resorted to odd jobs and other resourceful solutions to make ends meet therefore joining an economy of rupture, based on the informal sector. The social costs of the programmes, brought upon by the …
The Cultural Underground of Decolonization
The African liberation movements and the early phases of nation-building on the continent, intertwined with the Cold War and the global student movement, left behind an array of textual, visual, and sonic traces that circulated through underground and clandestine networks across Africa and beyond. These cultural products, which include materials in African languages, remain marginalized in studies of African history and arts. This article posits …
From Haiti to Congo
This essay explores the early work of Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain in Congo. Despite Comhaire-Sylvain being renowned as Haiti's first woman anthropologist, her life and extensive scholar-ship in Africa have been largely overlooked. Given her unique positionality and formal training in Europe during a period when ethnology relied on empire to assert its utility to the state, Comhaire-Sylvain's work unfolded along colonial fault lines, a dimension this…
The Senegal Liberations Project
What can the stories of enslaved individuals who actively sought their freedom in colonial Senegal reveal about global histories of freedom and unfreedom in the modern age? How can the analysis of primary documents, such as the Registers of Slave Liberation in Colonial Senegal, unveil new narratives and perspectives on the pathways out of slavery? What insights and collaborative research opportunities can arise from bridging scholars based in Sen…
Introduction
This introduction provides a broad overview to the context of digital humanities projects dealing with enslaved people and frames the debate over the ethics and politics of using the names of enslaved people. For some descendant communities, listing the names of enslaved people contributes to searches for genealogical connections; for other communities where the stigma of enslaved descent still prevails, such projects may do harm. This introducti…
Decolonization and the Underground in Africa
The Underground Lives of Texts
In 1979, the Maoist-inspired cultural movement Front Culturel Sénégalais (FCS) renewed interest in Lamine Senghor's La Violation d'un pays (1927) through the underground republication of this pioneering work. Exploring the material history of La Violation d'un pays through the FCS's repurposing of Senghor's legacy as a key figure of interwar anti-imperialism during the long 1960s-when ongoing decolonization movements and youth protests fueled new…
Political science (5 obras) · African history and culture studies (4 obras) · History (4 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Art (3 obras) · History (3 obras) · Law (3 obras) · Literature (3 obras) · Politics (3 obras) · Decolonization (2 obras)