16:00 - 17:30
History, Power and Staging the Self
Room: Arts – Lecture Room 5
Stream: Text, Paratext and Context in African Autobiographical Narratives
Chair/s:
Louisa Uchum Egbunike
16:00 - 16:15
Tu-A41 Autobiography 2-P-001
Online Texts and Autobiographical Moments of Belonging: A Reading of Taiye Selasi's Writing
Pernille Nailor
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
16:15 - 16:30
Tu-A41 Autobiography 2-P-002
Silence and elision in Laurent Gbagbo's Pour la vérité et la justice
Maggie Gamberton
University of York, York, United Kingdom
16:30 - 16:45
Tu-A41 Autobiography 2-P-003
Re-visiting Sol Plaatje's Mafeking Diary
Brian Willan
ISEA, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
16:45 - 17:00
Tu-A41 Autobiography 2-P-004
‘I was born in a small hamlet in African bush’: Memory and Identity in Boubou Hama’s Autobiography
Ana Luiza De Oliveira e Silva
University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil