naked agency: GENITAL CURSING AND BIOPOLITICS IN AFRICA

Please join Naminata Diabate for a book Discussion.

Naminata Diabate is associate professor of comparative literature at Cornell University. With linguistic expertise in Malinké, French, English, Nouchi, Spanish, and Latin, she explores questions of gender, sexuality, and race in Africa and the African diaspora. Analyzing novels, films, visual arts, and digital media, Diabate’s most recent work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals, collections of essays, and her book, Naked Agency: Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa (Duke University Press, 2020). Currently, she is working on two monographs, “The Problem of Pleasure in Global Africa” and “Digital Insurgencies and Bodily Domains.”

REGISTER HERE

https://societyhumanities.as.cornell.edu/naminata-diabate-her-book-nake…