Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi
Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi
Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Emerita, Recalled
Contact:
Building 260, Room 107
Phone: 650 723 1947
boyi@stanford.edu
Office Hours:
By appointment onlyOVERVIEW:
Professor Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi is affiliated with both the French and Italian and Comparative Literature departments. Her teaching and research interests include cultural relations between Europe, Africa and the Caribbean; literature, intellectuals and society; and women writers. Before coming to Stanford in 1995, Professor Boyi taught at universities in the Congo and Burundi, as well as Haverford College and Duke University. She was a Visiting Professor in the French Department of the Graduate Center, CUNY in 1994. In 1999-2000 Professor Boyi was a Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center. In 2002-2003 Professor Boyi was the president of the African Literature Association, a non-profit society of scholars dedicated to the advancement of African Literary Studies. She served as a member of the Executive Council of the Modern Language Association, where she represents the field of French (2003-2006), and as the Director of the interdisciplinary Program in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford (2005-2008).
Among Mudimbe-Boyi's publications are Jacques-Stephen Alexis: une écriture poétique, un engagement politique, "Post-Colonial Women Writing in French;" Beyond Dichotomies: Histories, Identities, Culture, and the Challenge of Globalization (2002); and Remembering Africa (2002); Her latest book, Essais sur les cultures en contact - Afrique, Amériques, Europe was published by Karthala (Paris) in September 2006.
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Professor Boyi studied Romance Philology at the Catholic Universities of Louvain (Belgium) and Lovanium, Kinshasa. She holds a Licence en Philosophie et Lettres from the Catholic University of Lovanium (groupe Philologie Romane) and a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures: French and Italian (Doctorat en Langues et Littératures Romanes) from the National University of Zaïre in Lubumbashi, with honors (Grande Distinction). Before earning her Ph.D., Professor Boyi studied ethnology at the University of Paris-Nanterre. She also studied Portuguese at the University of Lisbon, Italian language and literature at the Catholic University of Milan and the University of Siena, and at the University of Brescia, where she was a language teaching intern at CLADIL, the Centro di Linguistica applicata e didattica della lingua.
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Courses
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FRENLIT133Win2011-12
The course is reading, analysis and discussion of some of the most representative texts by 20th century Francophone writers from a variety of locations: the French Caribbean, Africa North and South of the Sahara. These works convey the changing aspects of Francophone Africa and the French Caribbean societies and cultures: from oral to written, colonization and changes, tradition competing with modernity, particularly for women, building new identities immigration narrative. The course aims to broaden knowledge of the Francophone societies and cultures, as well as improve skills in speaking and writing in French. Lectures and discussions are conducted in French, most required readings and background material are in French as well. Reading in fiction, poetry and theater include Laye Camara, Ferdinand Oyono, Maryse Condé, Aimé Césaire, Leila Sebbar, Mariama Ba, and others. Prerequisite: FRENLANG 124 or consent of instructor.
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FRENLIT358Win2011-12
Literature is the site of a multiplicity of knowledges. This course is an attempt to build a history of ideas in the Francophone world. We will be looking at narrative styles, as well at the ways in which the 20th century theoretical discourse among Francophone intellectuals is often embedded in the novel. The role of intellectuals in society will be discussed, with a focus on three major topics: identities, religion (Islam, Christianity, violence), and democracy. Reading includes Assia Djebar, Abdelwahab Meddeb, Henri Lopès, Amin Malouf, VY Mudimbe, Franz Fanon, Jean-Paul Sartre, Edward Said and others.
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FRENLIT133Win2010-11
(Same as COMPLIT 141.) Major African and Caribbean writers. Issues raised in literary works which reflect changing aspects of the societies and cultures of Francophone Africa and the French Caribbean. Topics include colonization and change quest for identity tradition and modernity and new roles and status for women. Readings in fiction and poetry. Authors include Laye Camara Mariama Ba and Joseph Zobel. In French. Prerequisite: FRENLANG 126 or consent of instructor. GER:DB-Hum EC-GlobalCom WIM
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FRENLIT267Win2010-11
This course will focus on the implications of a 'global francophonie,' through discussion of texts produced in different francophone times and spaces. Among the topics to be explored: confrontation of inward/outward territories and the questions of otherness identity and minority status the relation between history and literature transnationality métissage of languages and transnationality. Readings include Montaigne and Calvin Tzetan Todorov Lise Gauvin Aimé Césaire Bernard Dadié Edouard Glissant Leila Sebbar and others. SAME AS COMPLIT 267.
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COMPLIT141Win2010-11
Major African and Caribbean writers. Issues raised in literary works which reflect changing aspects of the societies and cultures of Francophone Africa and the French Caribbean. Topics include colonization and change quest for identity tradition and modernity and new roles and status for women. Readings in fiction and poetry. Authors include Laye Camara Mariama Ba and Joseph Zobel. In French. Prerequisite: FRENLANG 126 or consent of instructor. GER:DB-Hum EC-GlobalCom
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COMPLIT267Win2010-11
This course will focus on the implications of a ¿global francophonie,¿ through discussion of texts produced in different francophone times and spaces. Among the topics to be explored: confrontation of inward/outward territories and the questions of otherness, identity and minority status, the relation between history and literature, transnationality, métissage of languages and transnationality. Readings include Montaigne and Calvin, Tzetan Todorov, Lise Gauvin, Aimé Césaire, Bernard Dadié, Edouard Glissant, Leila Sebbar and others.
