Kandioura Drame

Associate Professor of French

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Phone: 434-924-4634
Personal Website
Office: 201 Levering Hall
Spring 2012 Office Hours: Tuesdays and Fridays, 3:00 - 4:00, and by appointment

Research Interests

Francophone African literature (French colonial literature, early Francophone, Negritude, and Post-Negritude writers; Essays, Fiction, and Poetry); African cinema, Oral traditions, and Contemporary African music and arts.

Education

• Bachelor of Arts (BA), Universite Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar
• Master of Arts (MA), University of California System : Los Angeles
• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of California System : Los Angeles

Courses Taught

Introduction to African Literature; Pioneers of Francophone African Literature; Africa in Cinema; Oral Traditions of Senegambia; African Literatures and Cultures.

Visit the following site for more information on Francophone African Literature and cinema, interviews with authors, video and audio archives: African Studies
For more on francophone writers: http://www.medi1.com

Recent Publications

• "The Dance of the Philosopher" ALA Bulletin, Spring 2001.
• "Le Mvet dans l'oeuvre de Mongo Beti, Critical Perspectives on Mongo Beti," 1998.
• La bataille de Manda in Les Épopées d'Afrique noire, Collection UNESCO, 1997.
• "The Trickster as Triptych," Monsters, Tricksters, and Sacred Cows: Animal Tales and American Identities, 1996.

Images from the African Oral Literature Course

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Students & Faculty enjoying songs of Old Mali. Griot Cheikh Hamala Jabate & Mr. Bruce Penner.