Audrey Small
Biographic Data
| ID | 114902 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Audrey Small |
| GIVEN NAMES | Audrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Small |
| SIGNATURE | SMALL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Writing the Transatlantic Imaginary in Agualusa's Nação Crioula and Monénembo's Pelourinho
This article explores the complex relationship between African literatures in European languages and the construction of the historical record in Agualusa’s Nação Crioula and Monénembo’s Pelourinho. It problematizes the idealised notion present in lusofonia of the Atlantic triangle as characterised by fluid identities and hybrid spaces, to argue that in both novels boundaries are ruptured but also reinscribed. In exploring unofficial acts of writ…
Reversals of Exile: Williams Sassine'sWirriyamuand Tierno Monénembo'sPelourinho
This essay examines two novels by exiled Guinean writers in which physical space functions as a central point of reference for very different, though related, considerations of traumatized memory, identity, and exile. In Williams Sassine'sWirriyamu(1976), a violent and violated rural landscape becomes emblematic of a specific traumatic event occurring within the time frame of the novel and of contemporary political reality; while in Tierno Monéne…
Imagining Twenty-first-century Literature via Print Publishing: Problems for "Francophone" Literature and the Case of Guinea
This article explores the ways in which "imagining twenty-first century literature in French" is directly shaped by historical and contemporary patterns of print publishing. Growing scholarly interest over the last decade in factors relating to the production and circulation of print has begun to draw out the importance of the material life of books in what we perceive as "literature", and particularly how circumstances vary greatly within the va…
Roots, rhizomes and l'Africano: Traces of Glissant in Tierno Monénembo's Pelourinho
The Duty of Memory: A Solidarity of Voices after the Rwandan Genocide
In 2000, the publication of ten texts marked the completion of a two-year project entitled Le Devoir de mémoire, which had brought together ten writers from across Africa to write in response to the Rwandan genocide. This article looks at how the project was posited from the outset as a specifically African response, setting this in the context of older problems of voice, selfrepresentation and the renegotiation of miswritten histories in the pos…
The Duty of Memory: A Solidarity of Voices after the Rwandan Genocide
In 2000, the publication of ten texts marked the completion of a two-year project entitled Le Devoir de mémoire, which had brought together ten writers from across Africa to write in response to the Rwandan genocide. This article looks at how the project was posited from the outset as a specifically African response, setting this in the context of older problems of voice, selfrepresentation and the renegotiation of miswritten histories in the pos…
Roots, rhizomes and l'Africano: Traces of Glissant in Tierno Monénembo's Pelourinho
Imagining Twenty-first-century Literature via Print Publishing: Problems for "Francophone" Literature and the Case of Guinea
This article explores the ways in which "imagining twenty-first century literature in French" is directly shaped by historical and contemporary patterns of print publishing. Growing scholarly interest over the last decade in factors relating to the production and circulation of print has begun to draw out the importance of the material life of books in what we perceive as "literature", and particularly how circumstances vary greatly within the va…
Reversals of Exile: Williams Sassine'sWirriyamuand Tierno Monénembo'sPelourinho
This essay examines two novels by exiled Guinean writers in which physical space functions as a central point of reference for very different, though related, considerations of traumatized memory, identity, and exile. In Williams Sassine'sWirriyamu(1976), a violent and violated rural landscape becomes emblematic of a specific traumatic event occurring within the time frame of the novel and of contemporary political reality; while in Tierno Monéne…
Writing the Transatlantic Imaginary in Agualusa's Nação Crioula and Monénembo's Pelourinho
This article explores the complex relationship between African literatures in European languages and the construction of the historical record in Agualusa’s Nação Crioula and Monénembo’s Pelourinho. It problematizes the idealised notion present in lusofonia of the Atlantic triangle as characterised by fluid identities and hybrid spaces, to argue that in both novels boundaries are ruptured but also reinscribed. In exploring unofficial acts of writ…
Art (5 works) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (4 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Ethnology (2 works)