Babacar M’baye

Biographic Data

ID93790
NAMEBabacar M’baye
GIVEN NAMESBabacar
FAMILY NAMEM’baye
SIGNATUREM’BAYE B
AFFILIATIONSKent State University
ORCID0000-0002-6438-773X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS34
AUTHOR COUNT16
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX2

  • The Black Intellectual Tradition

    Babacar M’bayeARTICLEThe European Legacy2022

    Kehinde Andrews’s book is a welcome addition to the vast Black intellectual tradition because it defines major concepts of this tradition and challenges misconceptions about them. As Andrews shows

  • American Trickster

    Babacar M’bayeARTICLEJournal of American Folklore2021

    Book Review| October 01 2021 American Trickster: Trauma, Tradition, and Brer Rabbit American Trickster: Trauma, Tradition, and Brer Rabbit. By Emily Zobel Marshall. (New York: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2019. Pp. Babacar M’Baye Babacar M’Baye Kent State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2021) 134 (534): 520–522. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfolk.134.534.0520 Cite Icon Cite…

  • Afropolitan Sexual and Gender Identities in Colonial Senegal

    Open AccessBabacar M’bayeARTICLEHumanities2019

    Drawing from Achille Mbembe’s theorization of Afropolitanism as an opportunity for modern Africans “to experience several worlds” and develop flux, hybrid, and constantly mobile identities (“Afropolitanism” 29), this essay attempts to make an intervention into the ways in which this phenomenon appeared in colonial Senegalese culture. A neglected site of Afropolitanism was the colonial metropolis of Dakar which reflected subversive homosexual or t…

  • The Trickster in Ishmael Reed’s Dualistic Representations of Black Radicalism and Nationalism in Mumbo Jumbo

    Babacar M’bayeARTICLEJournal for the Study of Radicalism2016

    Research Article| January 01 2016 The Trickster in Ishmael Reed’s Dualistic Representations of Black Radicalism and Nationalism in Mumbo Jumbo Babacar M’Baye Babacar M’Baye Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal for the Study of Radicalism (2016) 10 (1): 107–144. https://doi.org/10.14321/jstudradi.10.1.0107 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Babacar M’Baye;…

  • African Influences in Atlantic World Culture

    Open AccessBabacar M’bayeARTICLELiterature Compass2016Cited by: 1References: 2

    This essay has a double aim. First, it will discuss key insights from past and recent scholarship on African influences in Atlantic world cultures. The overview will show the contributions of key, yet largely unknown, scholarship on African retentions in the Atlantic world that deserves more attention for its implications for literary genealogies. Using Julie Dash's 1997 novel Daughters of the Dust , which was adapted from a 1991 film of the same…

  • Configurations of Enslavement

    Babacar M’bayeARTICLEThe European Legacy2016

    Invoking Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Imagination is a crucial scholarly work, since it invigorates the extant research by taking the concept of slavery into new directions. Drawing on

  • Rhyme's Challenge

    Babacar M’bayeARTICLEPopular Music & Society2014

    David Caplan's Rhyme's Challenge: Hip Hop, Poetry, and Contemporary Rhyming Culture is a much needed book because it examines the significance of rhymes in American hip hop across races and culture

  • Caribbean Migratory Experiences in Queen Macoomeh's Tales from Icebox Land and Mutabaruka's Poetry

    Babacar M’bayeARTICLESouthern Journal of Canadian…2013

    This essay analyzes the various ways in which Queen Macoomeh's Tales from Icebox Land (2007) and selected poems of Mutabaruka represent the conditions of Caribbean immigrants in either Canada, England, and (or) the United States since the 1960s and 70s. The paper attempts to uncover the subversive, diasporic, and postcolonial qualities of pivotal West Indian literature that mainstream journals and scholars have neglected. In an attempt to reveal …

  • The Origins of Senegalese Homophobia

    Open AccessBabacar M’bayeARTICLEAfrican Studies Review2013Cited by: 29References: 21

    This article traces the history of homosexual and transgender behavior in Senegal from colonial times to the contemporary period in order to demonstrate the flimsiness of the claims, made by many political and religious leaders and scholars, that homosexuality is "un-African." Such claims, which appear as reactions to neocolonialism and Western intervention in African affairs, usually are homophobic discourses that invoke patriotism, cultural dif…

  • Baldwin's Atlantics

    Babacar M’baye, Babacar M'BayeARTICLENew Formations2012

    Cora Kaplan and Bill Schwarz (eds), James Baldwin: America and Beyond, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2011, 259pp; paperback $24.65 James Baldwin: America and Beyond makes forceful contributions to the transnational scholarship on Baldwin's life and works by embedding selected writings of Baldwin within both the national and international contexts that influenced them. The edited book of Cora Kaplan and Bill Schwarz is an excellent addi…

  • Metamorphosis and Cosmopolitanism in a Senegalese Immigrant's Narratives about Québec

    Babacar M’baye, Babacar M'BayeARTICLEQuebec Studies2012

  • The Trickster Comes West

    Babacar M’baye, Babacar M'BayeBOOKThe trickster comes west2009

    In the past, scholars have looked at narratives of the African diaspora only to discover how these memoirs, poems, and fictions related to the West. This book explores relationships among African-American, Afro-Caribbean, and Afro-British narratives of slavery and of New World and British oppression and what African influences brought to these diasporic expressions. Using an interdisciplinary method that combines history, literary theory, cultura…

  • Richard Wright and African francophone intellectuals

    Babacar M’bayeARTICLEAfrican and Black Diaspora An…2008Cited by: 1References: 14

    This study examines the ambivalent relationships that Richard Wright had with African francophone intellectuals such as Léopold Sédar Senghor and Alioune Diop, who were involved in African anti-colonial struggles in France during the 1930s and 1950s when he was committed to African American struggle for equality, justice, and freedom. In an attempt to re-evaluate the African American writer's participation in the 1956 Congress of Black Writers in…

  • Philosophical Perspectives on Communalism and Morality in African Traditions

    Open AccessBabacar M’baye, Babacar M''Baye et al.REVIEWAfrican American Review2007Cited by: 1

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  • The Economic, Political, and Social Impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade on Africa

    Babacar M’bayeARTICLEThe European Legacy2006Cited by: 2

    The Transatlantic slave trade radically impaired Africa's potential to develop economically and maintain its social and political stability. The arrival of Europeans on the West African Coast and their establishment of slave ports in various parts of the continent triggered a continuous process of exploitation of Africa's human resources, labor, and commodities. This exploitative commerce influenced the African political and religious aristocraci…

  • Africa, Race, and Culture in the Narratives of W. E. B. Du Bois

    Babacar M’baye, Philosophia Africana et al.ARTICLEPhilosophia Africana2004