Frieda Ekotto

Biographic Data

ID174560
NAMEFrieda Ekotto
GIVEN NAMESFrieda
FAMILY NAMEEkotto
SIGNATUREEKOTTO F
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Michigan
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Mourning Without End

    Cesare Casarino, Frieda Ekotto et al.ARTICLECultural Critique2025

  • The Eternal Departure

    Frieda EkottoARTICLECultural Critique2025

    This essay offers a lyrical meditation on death, memory, and historical trauma, weaving personal grief—especially the loss of her father—into the broader context of African diasporic experiences. Africa becomes a symbol of ongoing loss and spectral presence, where the dead live on through memory, language, and silence. Through philosophical inquiry, autobiographical fragments, and literary references, she explores the impossibility of fully artic…

  • Frantz Fanon in the Era of Black Lives Matter

    Open AccessFrieda EkottoCHAPTERReframing Postcolonial Studies2021

  • Framing homosexual identities in Cameroonian literature

    Open AccessFrieda EkottoARTICLETydskrif vir letterkunde2016Cited by: 1

    What language exists to describe the lives of women and sexual minorities who live in Cameroon? In this paper, I demonstrate how a selection of contemporary works of fiction use their narratives to create a space and language for the experiences of LGBT individuals within the cultural imaginary of Sub-Saharan Africa. Texts such as my own Jeune fille de Bona Mbella (2010), Max Lobe’s 39 Rue de Berne (2013) and Chimamanda Adichie’s “Jumping Monkey …

  • Rethinking African Cultural Production

    Eileen M Julien, Moradewun Adejunmobi et al.BOOKRethinking African Cultural…2015

  • Une relecture artistique et esthétique des spectres de l'Histoire

    Frieda EkottoARTICLEAfricultures2014

  • Two Documentary Films - Eléonore Yaméogo, Dir. Paris My Paradise. Original Title

    Open AccessFrieda EkottoARTICLEAfrican Studies Review2013

    TWO DOCUMENTARY FILMS - Eléonore Yaméogo, dir. Paris My Paradise. Original Title: Paris mon paradis. 2011. French, with English subtitles. 67 mins. Burkina Faso: Overlap Film (Erwann, Greec’h Roman Da Costa). No price reported. - Kim Longinotto and Florence Aysi, dirs. Sisters in Law. 2005. Pidgin English, with French and English subtitles. 104 mins. Cameroon. Women Make Movies Production. $295.00. - Volume 56 Issue 1

  • Rhythm and Knowledge

    Frieda Ekotto, Frieda Ekotto Frieda EkottoARTICLECultural Critique2013References: 1

  • Kivu Ruhorahoza. Grey Matter. Original Title

    Open AccessFrieda EkottoARTICLEAfrican Studies Review2013Cited by: 2

    Kivu Ruhorahoza. Grey Matter. Original Title: Matière Grise. 2011. Rwanda. Kinyarwanda and French, with English subtitles. 100 min. Scarab Studio (POV Productions), Global Film Initiative (distributor). No price reported. - Volume 56 Issue 2

  • Articulating difference

    Frieda EkottoARTICLEContemporary French Civilization2012

    As the title indicates, this essay is a tribute to the late Lawrence Schehr. Writing and reading are powerful forms of intersubjective communication that remain active beyond even the literal death of the author and are vital enough to sustain subjectivity even through great loss. Yet I would argue that writing and reading are still limited, because to heal psychic trauma there is the need for witnessing in person, for addressing and responding t…

  • From Women Loving Women in Africa to Jean Genet and Race

    Naminata Diabate, Frieda EkottoARTICLEJournal of the African Literature…2009

    (2009). From Women Loving Women in Africa to Jean Genet and Race: A Conversation with Frieda Ekotto. Journal of the African Literature Association: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 181-203

  • Genet's The Blacks

    Open AccessBénédicte Boisseron, Frieda EkottoARTICLEParagraph2004