“Trente ans après le genocide contre les Tutsi au Rwanda: littérature et le devoir de mémoire”

Odile Cazenave is Professor of French Studies in Romance Studies, African Studies, and the Center for the Study of Europe at Boston University. Her publications include Femmes rebelles: naissance d’un nouveau roman africain au féminin (1996), Afrique sur Seine. Une nouvelle génération de romanciers africains à Paris (2003), and Contemporary Francophone African Writers and the Burden of Commitment (2011, co-authored with Patricia Celerier). Prof. Cazenave has written on a wide range of topics related to gender and sexuality, postmemory, the local and the global, art from trauma, filiation and transmission, the diaspora, as well as issues of displacement, migration, and citizenship. Her most recent publications include articles on Indian Ocean Literature, film, and globalization; on writers and filmmakers such as Assia Djebar, Khady Sylla, Ananda Devi, Kivu Ruhorahoza, Fabienne and Veronique Kanor, Véronique Tadjo, Boubacar Boris Diop, Alain Mabanckou, Raharimanana, Sami Tchak, and Abdourahman Waberi.