Mouhamedoul Niang
Title
Professor of French
Department
French and Italian
Information
- (207) 859-4661
- [email protected]
- (207) 859-4405
- Lovejoy 309
Address
4661 Mayflower Hill Waterville, Maine 04901-8853
Current Courses
| Title | Course Number(s) | Section(s) |
|---|---|---|
| French I | FR125, FR125 | B, A |
| Cultural Encounters: Engaging with Literature and Media | FR128 | A |
| Narratives of Identities in Francophone African Literature | FR375, AA375 | A, A |
| Seminar: Narratives of Identities in Francophone African Literature | FR493B, AA493B | A, A |
| Introduction to the Francophone World: Africa | AA238, FR238 | A, A |
Education
- M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Areas of Expertise
- Francophone literature and cinema
- Nationalism, totemism and occultism
- Narratives of identities and ideologies of AfricansÂ
- Innovative literary aesthetics
- Gender, body, and space
- African Studies and African philosophy
- Postcolonial theory and decolonialityÂ
- His research focuses on innovative literary aesthetics, narratives of identities and ideologies within the representations of gender, space and the body in Francophone African cinema and literature. He is the author of the monograph, La reprĂ©sentation de l’espace dans les littĂ©ratures africaine et crĂ©oliste : de la polaritĂ© Ă sa transcendance (Paris : L’Harmattan, 2020), and the novel, RĂŞves d’adolescents en terre noire (Paris : L’Harmattan, 2021). He has published his work in academic journals such as Research in African Literatures, The Journal of the African Literature Association, Nouvelles Études Francophones, Cahier d’études africaines, French Studies in Southern Africa, The French Review, Alternative francophone (University of Alberta, Canada), Nineteenth Century French Studies, La Tortue verte (revue en ligne des littĂ©ratures francophones, UniversitĂ© de Lille 3, France), CELAAN (Special Issue on the Sahara), etc. He has also authored articles in collective volumes on Ousmane Sembène, l’écriture migrante, and women in Islam.
Publications
Books:
L’écriture de l’espace dans les littĂ©ratures africaine et crĂ©oliste: De la polaritĂ© Ă sa transcendance. Paris : L’Harmattan, 2020Â
Rêves d’adolescents en terre noire. Paris : L’Harmattan, 2021. (novel)
Book Chapters:
“Entre religion et classe sociale: le couple wolof et musulman dans La Grève des bĂ ttu d’Aminata Sow Fall.” in Femmes d’islam en littĂ©rature, film et art. Coll. Études transnationales, francophones et comparĂ©es. Coord. Catherine Perry. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2020.Â
“An Onomastic Reading of Ousmane Sembene’s Faat Kiné.” In Ousmane Sembène and the Politics of Culture. Eds. Lifongo Vetinde and Amadou Fofana. New York: Lexington Books, 2015.
“CroisĂ©es narratives ou nouvelle translation du vĂ©cu spatial de l’immigrĂ©. Le post-Ă©pistolaire et le mĂ©moriel dans Le Ventre de l’Atlantique de Fatou Diome.” Fictions et devenirs dans les Ă©critures migrantes au fĂ©minin. Enracinements et nĂ©gociations, NĂ©vine, El NossĂ©ry & Anna Roca, eds. SaarbrĂĽcken: Éditions universitaires europĂ©ennes, 2011.Â
“Modern Medicine, Excess and Tradition in L’Appel des arènes.” In Health and Mental Issues in the Literary Imagination. Ed. Mamadou Kandji. Dakar: Diaspora Academy Press, 2011 (Université Cheikh Anta Diop)
Articles:
“Biocentrism as Magical Realism, Realism and Hybrid Transculturation: Fatou Diome’s Innovative Fictionalization of Biocentric Characterization through Transnational Testimonials in KĂ©tala.” Research in African Literatures 52-4 (2021): 20-40.Â
“In defense of secular modernity: Politicizing the body and space in Malika Mokeddem’s Of Dreams and Assassins.” The Journal of the African Literature Association 15.2 (2021): 289-307.
“Global Capitalism, Multinational Corporations and The Creation of Identities in the Sahara : A Case Study of Idrissou Mora Kpai’s Film Arlit, Deuxième Paris.” CELAAN, Sahara and Identity, 15.2&3 (Fall 2018): 134-161.
“Le choc des imaginaires dans Les Soleils des Indépendances d’Ahmadou Kourouma et L’année maigre d’Alhassane Ag. Baille.” French Studies in Southern Africa 44 (2014): 132-156.
 “La dramaturgie lamartinienne ou le postcolonial avant la lettre : Le marronnage comme rĂ©sistance dans Toussaint Louverture. Nineteenth Century French Studies 42.3&4 (2014) : 190-205.Â
“L’Africanisation du polar ou l’élucidé du relationnel dans Les Cocus posthumes de Bolya Baenga.” La tortue verte. Revue en ligne des littératures francophones, ALITHILA, Université Lille 3, 2012)
“Ascendance étatique ou l’institution du nationalisme républicain dans L’Honneur de la tribu de Rachid Mimouni.” Nouvelles Éditions Francophones 26.1 (2011): 150-165.
“Déconstruction et renouveau esthétique: une exégèse narratologique de l’hybride et de la traduction dans Les Soleils des Indépendances et Solibo Magnifique.” Alternative francophone 1.3 (2010): 87-94. (University of Alberta, Canada; Online journal http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/af/article/view/9629)
Book Reviews:
Collecte coloniale et affect. Ramper, dédoubler. Eds. Mathieu K. Abonnenc, Lotte Arndt, et Catalina Lozano. Nouvelles Études Francophones 32.1 (2017): 192-195.
Coly, Ayo A. The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood. French Review 88.1 (2014): 219-220.
Diawara, Manthia — African Film: New Forms of Aesthetics and Politics. Prestel, 2010, 319 p., bibl., filmo., DVD. Cahiers d’études africaines 213-214 (2014).
Guèye, MĂ©doune. Aminata Sow Fall, oralitĂ© et sociĂ©tĂ© dans l’Ĺ“uvre romanesque. 07/04/2012) http://www.africultures.com/php/index.php?nav=article&no=10692.
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