Véronique Tadjo
Biographic Data
| ID | 978474 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Véronique Tadjo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Véronique |
| FAMILY NAME | Tadjo |
| SIGNATURE | TADJO V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Poèmes
The Culture of Dissenting Memory: Truth Commissions in the Global South
"This volume deals with the manifold ways in which histories are debated and indeed historicity and historiography themselves are interrogated via the narrative modes of the truth commissions and the various medial responses (memoirs, fiction, poetry, film, art) which have emerged in the wake of the truth commissions. The 1990s and the 2000s saw a spate of so-called truth commissions across the Global South. From the inaugural Truth Commissions i…
Agir par l'imagination
Hospitality and Hostility in the Multilingual Global Village
This interdisciplinary, international, and multi-lingual collection of essays explores a broad range of issues related to hospitality and hostility, in literary and cultural contexts from antiquity to the present. Insightful theoretical and historical discussions undergird richly detailed particular studies. The central focus unifies the diverse pieces, which are original, well-researched and reasoned, and clearly written. A solid contribution to…
The cartography of African literature: Beyond borders
Interview with Boubacar Boris Diop
Genocide: The changing landscape of memory in Kigali
This paper reflects on the memory of the genocide in Rwanda from two angles. First, through the literary project, ‘Rwanda: Writing as a Duty to Memory’, in which I was involved along with nine other African writers and also through the Gisozi Memorial Museum in Kigali which is one of the main official forms of representation of the genocide. I shall not look at all the other constructions of memory, namely through fine arts, music and cinema
Creating books for children in francophone Africa and beyond: A personal experience
Lord of the Dance was my first picture book for children and, strangely enough for a francophone writer, it came out in London in 1988 after the UK had temporarily become my home. Several years lat
Barack Obama: Les enjeux du métissage. Une approche de deux discours
« Le mythe est sorti trop tôt de sa cachette »
Le garçon qui voulait devenir blanc
V ronique Tadjo Speaks with Stephen Gray
In South Africa during the month of March writers are known to migrate to Durban for the annual "Time of the Writer" festival, where a meeting of anglophone and francophone African practitioners is generally an important theme. In 2002, as a spin-off event, the Alliance Française in Johannesburg organized a round-table discussion with several of the visitors from the French-speaking world, and included Véronique Tadjo, a previous guest at the Tim…
Littérature africaine et mondialisation
As the Crow Flies
Poèmes
The magician and the girl
Genocide: The changing landscape of memory in Kigali
This paper reflects on the memory of the genocide in Rwanda from two angles. First, through the literary project, ‘Rwanda: Writing as a Duty to Memory’, in which I was involved along with nine other African writers and also through the Gisozi Memorial Museum in Kigali which is one of the main official forms of representation of the genocide. I shall not look at all the other constructions of memory, namely through fine arts, music and cinema
The magician and the girl
Poèmes
As the Crow Flies
V ronique Tadjo Speaks with Stephen Gray
In South Africa during the month of March writers are known to migrate to Durban for the annual "Time of the Writer" festival, where a meeting of anglophone and francophone African practitioners is generally an important theme. In 2002, as a spin-off event, the Alliance Française in Johannesburg organized a round-table discussion with several of the visitors from the French-speaking world, and included Véronique Tadjo, a previous guest at the Tim…
Littérature africaine et mondialisation
« Le mythe est sorti trop tôt de sa cachette »
Le garçon qui voulait devenir blanc
Barack Obama: Les enjeux du métissage. Une approche de deux discours
Creating books for children in francophone Africa and beyond: A personal experience
Lord of the Dance was my first picture book for children and, strangely enough for a francophone writer, it came out in London in 1988 after the UK had temporarily become my home. Several years lat
Interview with Boubacar Boris Diop
Genocide: The changing landscape of memory in Kigali
This paper reflects on the memory of the genocide in Rwanda from two angles. First, through the literary project, ‘Rwanda: Writing as a Duty to Memory’, in which I was involved along with nine other African writers and also through the Gisozi Memorial Museum in Kigali which is one of the main official forms of representation of the genocide. I shall not look at all the other constructions of memory, namely through fine arts, music and cinema
The cartography of African literature: Beyond borders
Hospitality and Hostility in the Multilingual Global Village
This interdisciplinary, international, and multi-lingual collection of essays explores a broad range of issues related to hospitality and hostility, in literary and cultural contexts from antiquity to the present. Insightful theoretical and historical discussions undergird richly detailed particular studies. The central focus unifies the diverse pieces, which are original, well-researched and reasoned, and clearly written. A solid contribution to…
Agir par l'imagination
The Culture of Dissenting Memory: Truth Commissions in the Global South
"This volume deals with the manifold ways in which histories are debated and indeed historicity and historiography themselves are interrogated via the narrative modes of the truth commissions and the various medial responses (memoirs, fiction, poetry, film, art) which have emerged in the wake of the truth commissions. The 1990s and the 2000s saw a spate of so-called truth commissions across the Global South. From the inaugural Truth Commissions i…
Poèmes
Art (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · African history and culture studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Humanities (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · French (2 works)