11:30 - 13:00
Auto-Biographies, Self-Representation and Testimonies of War and Oppression
Oral session
Room: Arts – Lecture Room 5
Stream: Text, Paratext and Context in African Autobiographical Narratives
Chair/s:
Godwin Siundu
11:30 - 11:45
Tu-A41 Autobiography 1-P-001
Genocide’s Apprentice: Ndagijimana’s Bujumbura Mon Amour
Shaun Irlam
University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States
11:45 - 12:00
Tu-A41 Autobiography 1-P-002
Co-construction of an (auto)biography in the context of oppression, Chad
Mirjam de Bruijn
Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
12:00 - 12:15
Tu-A41 Autobiography 1-P-003
Narrating (Political) Orphanhood and Re(Dis)covery: Two Memoirs by ‘Daughters of the Struggle’
Mathilda Slabbert
University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa
12:15 - 12:30
Tu-A41 Autobiography 1-P-004
Bearing Witness to Life After Genocide in Rwandan Women’s Autobiographical Narratives
Catherine Gilbert
University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom