Edgard Sankara
Associate Professor of French
University of Delaware
223 Jastak-Burgess Hall
Newark, DE 19716
Biography
Edgard Sankara received his Licence (B.A) and MaĆ®trise from the University of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), his M.A. from the University of Oregon and his Phd in French/Francophone studies from the University of Texas-Austin. Dr. Sankaraās book Postcolonial Francophone Autobiographies: From Africa to the Antilles was published by the University of Virginia Press (2011). Dr. Sankara has published articles in Nouvelles Etudes Francophones, The Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, the Canadian Journal of African Studies, and ItinĆ©raires, littĆ©rature, textes, cultures. Dr. Sankara teaches courses in Francophone African and Caribbean literatures. His recent courses include: āNĆ©gritude-AntillanitĆ©-CrĆ©olitĆ©,ā āFrancophone African cinema,ā āFrancophone Women Writersā and a graduate seminar on āLiterature of immigration.ā
He is currently at work on a book-length project on life narratives in Burkina Faso and their connections with history, politics, and readersāresponse.
Degrees
- Phd, University of Texas-Austin
- M.A., University of Oregon
- BA, MaƮtrise, University of Ouagadougou
Publications
Postcolonial Francophone Autobiographies: From Africa to the Antilles
āBringing a comparative perspective to the study of autobiography, Edgard Sankara considers a cross-section of postcolonial francophone writing from Africa and the Caribbean in order to examine and compare for the first time their transnational reception. Sankara not only compares the ways in which a wide selection of autobiographies were received locally (as well as in France) but also juxtaposes reception by the colonized and the colonizer to show how different meanings were assigned to the works after publication.
Sankaraās geographical and cultural coverage of Africa and its diaspora is rich, with separate chapters devoted to the autobiographies of HampĆ¢tĆ© BĆ¢, Valentin MudimbĆ©, Kesso Barry, Patrick Chamoiseau, RaphaĆ«l Confiant, and Maryse CondĆ©. The author combines close reading, reception study, and postcolonial theory to present an insightful survey of the literary connections among these autobiographers as well as a useful point of departure for further exploration of the genre itself, of the role of reception studies in postcolonial criticism, and of the stance that postcolonial francophone writers choose to take regarding their communities of origin.ā
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