Akua Sarr
associate dean, college of arts & sciences
Email
Sarr@bc.edu
Education
Ph.D. & M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.A., Dartmouth College
Academic Specializations
West African literature, African and Black feminist studies, African autobiography, West African retentions in the Americas; literary representations of Africa in contemporary African-American
literature.
Selected Publications
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- The Histories, Languages and Cultures of West Africa: Interdisciplinary Essays, edited by Akua Sarr, et al., Edwin Mellen Press, 2006
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- Black Women Writers' Contributions to Contemporary Feminist Discourse, Edwin Mellen Press, 2003
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- "African Women Writing: Mariama Ba" in The Chalkboard, March 2005
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- "The Absent Bodies of Fanon and Cesaire: Relocating Women in (His)Story: Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions and Myriam Warner Vieyra's Juletane" in Voices: The Wisconsin Review
of African Languages and
Literatures, 2000
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