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• 01 mar 2018

  Paris

  Study days - Language

  Fixed forms and black identities

  Si les versets senghoriens et les vers blancs de Langston Hughes conditionnent en grande partie la réception de ces grands mouvements que sont la Négritude et la Harlem Renaissance, la question de la contrainte poétique est loin d’être anecdotique. L’émergence et la construction d’identités noires, qu’elle se fasse en Afrique, aux Antilles ou en Amérique du Nord, s’est en effet accompagnée de débats esthétiques et formels houleux. Pour des auteurs forcés de se positionner en fonction d’une tradition blanche, le choix, notamment, du sonnet élisabéthain ou pétrarquiste se charge d’un lourd poids symbolique.

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• 30 avr 2015

  Abidjan

  Call for papers - Africa

  African popular music: the veritable voices of the people?

  Perhaps for reasons related to intellectual elitism or simply because of the lack of an effective means of analysis, African popular arts (Modern African music in particular) keep on being pushed to the margins of academic discourse on postcolonial cultural identities. To this day and more than not, in classroom discussions on African culture(s), a place of pride is ascribed to literature (at films at times) despite the high rate of illiteracy and difficulty distributing them, which makes these products utterly inaccessible to the masses. That African writers like Ngugi (Kenya) and Boubacar Boris Diop (Senegal) decide to take their leave from colonial languages on behalf on “penning” their stories in African languages is sometimes hailed as an exceptional way towards cultural affirmation and identity recalibration. In terms of their production and consumption, however, popular musical forms have an absolute impact on African populations. These forms are transfigurations of the people’s daily life experience in that they bring together and crystallize the identities of the musical forms in question more than any other artistic expression.

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• 30 jan 2013

  Washington

  Call for papers - Representation

  American Art in Dialogue with Africa and the African Diaspora

  Since the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade, Africa has played an important — albeit shifting, contested, and often unseen — role in the history of art of the United States. Conference organizers seek original, innovative scholarship investigating heretofore unexamined aspects of this transatlantic dialogue, from the visual culture of slavery and abolitionism to American modernism; from the Black Arts Movement to the contemporary art world.

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