Ayo A Coly
Biographic Data
| ID | 678967 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ayo A Coly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ayo A |
| FAMILY NAME | Coly |
| SIGNATURE | COLY A A |
| AFFILIATIONS | , |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Postface
Research Article| May 01 2020 Postface Ayo A. Coly Ayo A. Coly Ayo A. Coly is professor of comparative literature and African studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood: Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literatures (2010) and Postcolonial Hauntologies: African Women's Discourses of the Female Body (2019). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google the minnesota review (2020) 2…
Postcolonial Hauntologies: African Women's Discourses of the Female Body
Un/clothing African womanhood: Colonial statements and postcolonial discourses of the African female body
Using the examples of the partially unclothed African woman in Senegal's controversial African Renaissance Monument (2009) and the 2008 proposed Anti-Nudity bill in Nigeria, this article probes postcolonial African engagements with the female body. The essay proposes that such postcolonial African preoccupations with how the female body is presented and seen should be contextualised in the fray of postcolonial African endeavours to resignify Afri…
CarmenGoes Postcolonial,CarmenGoes Queer: Thinking the Postcolonial as Queer
Karmen Gei (2001) by Senegalese filmmaker Joseph Gai Ramaka is the first African adaptation of Carmen. The film garnered attention for its indulgent sexuo-erotic rhetoric and its reinvention of Carmen as a bisexual libertine. Most critical assessments of Karmen Gei have accordingly applauded Joseph Gai Ramaka's 'daring' and 'innovative' intervention into the political and heteropatriarchal landscape of postcolonial Senegal, a country with a stron…
The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood: Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literatures
Chapter 1 Introduction: Of Uprooted and Deterritorialized Africans Part 2 Part I. Ken Bugul: From Self-Imposed Exile to Constrained Homecoming Chapter 3 Chapter 1: The (non)Place of the Daughter of the Postcolonial House: Le Baobab fou and Cendres et braises Chapter 4 Chapter 2: No Place Like the (non)Place: Striving to Come Home in Cendres et braises and Riwan ou le chemin de sable Part 5 Part II. Calixthe Beyala: The Conflicted Immigrant Standp…
A Pedagogy of the Black Female Body: Viewing Angèle Essamba’s Black Female Nudes
The colonial visual history of the black female body, namely the gesture of uncovering and inscribing grotesquerie and aberration on the black female body, has generated a postcolonial and black artistic angst about the black female body and resulted in timid artistic engagements with black female nudity. Using the photographic work of Cameroonian‐born Angèle Etoundi Essamba, a rare female presence in the male‐dominated field of African photograp…
Black Is the Color of the Cosmos; or, Callaloo and the Cultures of the Diaspora Now
Black is the Color of the Cosmos or Callaloo and the Cultures of the Diaspora Now Ivy G. Wilson (bio) and Ayo A. Coly (bio) To employ the term diaspora in black cultural studies now is equal parts imperative and elusive. In the wake of recent forceful critiques of nationalism, the diaspora has increasingly come to be understood as a concept—indeed, almost a discourse formation unto itself—that allows for, if not mandates, modes of analysis that a…
Un/clothing African womanhood: Colonial statements and postcolonial discourses of the African female body
Using the examples of the partially unclothed African woman in Senegal's controversial African Renaissance Monument (2009) and the 2008 proposed Anti-Nudity bill in Nigeria, this article probes postcolonial African engagements with the female body. The essay proposes that such postcolonial African preoccupations with how the female body is presented and seen should be contextualised in the fray of postcolonial African endeavours to resignify Afri…
A Pedagogy of the Black Female Body: Viewing Angèle Essamba’s Black Female Nudes
The colonial visual history of the black female body, namely the gesture of uncovering and inscribing grotesquerie and aberration on the black female body, has generated a postcolonial and black artistic angst about the black female body and resulted in timid artistic engagements with black female nudity. Using the photographic work of Cameroonian‐born Angèle Etoundi Essamba, a rare female presence in the male‐dominated field of African photograp…
CarmenGoes Postcolonial,CarmenGoes Queer: Thinking the Postcolonial as Queer
Karmen Gei (2001) by Senegalese filmmaker Joseph Gai Ramaka is the first African adaptation of Carmen. The film garnered attention for its indulgent sexuo-erotic rhetoric and its reinvention of Carmen as a bisexual libertine. Most critical assessments of Karmen Gei have accordingly applauded Joseph Gai Ramaka's 'daring' and 'innovative' intervention into the political and heteropatriarchal landscape of postcolonial Senegal, a country with a stron…
Black Is the Color of the Cosmos; or, Callaloo and the Cultures of the Diaspora Now
Black is the Color of the Cosmos or Callaloo and the Cultures of the Diaspora Now Ivy G. Wilson (bio) and Ayo A. Coly (bio) To employ the term diaspora in black cultural studies now is equal parts imperative and elusive. In the wake of recent forceful critiques of nationalism, the diaspora has increasingly come to be understood as a concept—indeed, almost a discourse formation unto itself—that allows for, if not mandates, modes of analysis that a…
The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood: Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literatures
Chapter 1 Introduction: Of Uprooted and Deterritorialized Africans Part 2 Part I. Ken Bugul: From Self-Imposed Exile to Constrained Homecoming Chapter 3 Chapter 1: The (non)Place of the Daughter of the Postcolonial House: Le Baobab fou and Cendres et braises Chapter 4 Chapter 2: No Place Like the (non)Place: Striving to Come Home in Cendres et braises and Riwan ou le chemin de sable Part 5 Part II. Calixthe Beyala: The Conflicted Immigrant Standp…
A Pedagogy of the Black Female Body: Viewing Angèle Essamba’s Black Female Nudes
The colonial visual history of the black female body, namely the gesture of uncovering and inscribing grotesquerie and aberration on the black female body, has generated a postcolonial and black artistic angst about the black female body and resulted in timid artistic engagements with black female nudity. Using the photographic work of Cameroonian‐born Angèle Etoundi Essamba, a rare female presence in the male‐dominated field of African photograp…
Un/clothing African womanhood: Colonial statements and postcolonial discourses of the African female body
Using the examples of the partially unclothed African woman in Senegal's controversial African Renaissance Monument (2009) and the 2008 proposed Anti-Nudity bill in Nigeria, this article probes postcolonial African engagements with the female body. The essay proposes that such postcolonial African preoccupations with how the female body is presented and seen should be contextualised in the fray of postcolonial African endeavours to resignify Afri…
CarmenGoes Postcolonial,CarmenGoes Queer: Thinking the Postcolonial as Queer
Karmen Gei (2001) by Senegalese filmmaker Joseph Gai Ramaka is the first African adaptation of Carmen. The film garnered attention for its indulgent sexuo-erotic rhetoric and its reinvention of Carmen as a bisexual libertine. Most critical assessments of Karmen Gei have accordingly applauded Joseph Gai Ramaka's 'daring' and 'innovative' intervention into the political and heteropatriarchal landscape of postcolonial Senegal, a country with a stron…
Postcolonial Hauntologies: African Women's Discourses of the Female Body
Postface
Research Article| May 01 2020 Postface Ayo A. Coly Ayo A. Coly Ayo A. Coly is professor of comparative literature and African studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood: Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literatures (2010) and Postcolonial Hauntologies: African Women's Discourses of the Female Body (2019). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google the minnesota review (2020) 2…
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