Adjunct Faculty in French
PORT 104H
Extension 3245
ada.azodo@purduecal.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of Lagos, 1991
M.A., University of Lagos, 1984
B. A., University of Ife, 1975
D.S.E., (Diplôme d’études supérieures de français, 3e degré), Université de Dakar, 1974
Areas of Expertise
- Francophone African Literatures
- African Diaspora Literatures
Selected Publications
Books
L’imaginaire dans les romans de Camara Laye. Vol. 4: New York, Berne, Paris: Peter Lang, 1993.
Emerging Perspectives on Ama Ata Aidoo. Ed. (and contributor). Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 1999.
Emerging Perspectives on Mariama Bâ. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2003.
Gender and Sexuality in African Literature and Film. Ed. (and contributor). Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2007a.
Emerging Perspectives on Aminata Sow Fall: The Real and The Imaginary in Her Novels. Ed. (and contributor). Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2007b.
Emerging Perspectives on Ken Bugul: From Alternative Choices to Oppositional Practices. Ed. (and contributor). Trenton: African World Press, 2009.
Academic Journal Articles
« Mémoire, Identité et Exil dans L’Africain de Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio ». [Collected Essays, 2011 African Literature Association annual conference, Ohio State University, Athens; forthcoming] Trenton, New Jersey: 2012.
« Emois de femme »: Méditations poétiques d’Évelyne-Berthe Agbo. » Palabres. Volume spéciale, Bayreuth, 2001. 302-307.
“The Role of the Narratee in the Production of Meaning from Textual Discourse: The Example
of Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter.” Journal of the African Literature Association of America (JALA), Vol. 1, No. 1, Winter/Spring: 2007: 76-87.
“Ken Bugul’s Le baobab fou: A Female Story about A Female Body.” African Literature Today:
New Women’s Writing in African Literature. Vol. 24, Cambridge, England, 2004: 77-90.
“Surviving the Present, Winning the Future: Revisiting the African Novel and the Short Story.”
MOTS PLURIELS. No 9. February, 1999. http://motspluriels.arts.uwa.edu.au/MP999aua.html
“The Work in Gold as Spiritual Journey in Camara Laye’s The African Child.” Journal of
Religion in Africa (Univ. of Leeds), XX11, No. 1, 1994.
Research Interests
Theory of the Littérature-monde
Francophone African Writings of Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
Favorite Quote
« Nous stimulions le déferlement de vagues enfantines qui emportaient dans leur repli un peu de notre être » –Mariama Bâ
