KEKEH-DIKA Andrée-Anne (PR)
Andrée-Anne KEKEH-DIKA is a Full Professor at the University of Paris 8. She teaches US literature, Caribbean literature, and translation. Her most recent research focuses on the writings of Jamaica Kincaid and John Agard, and the intersections of literature, history, botany, geometry, and music as ways of reconfiguring poetry and politics, and creating “in-between” and singular writing spaces.
She obtained accreditation to direct research (HDR) in 2015, « L’en-dehors et le milieu : lire et penser des littératures à trait d’union ». Prof. Y.C. Grandjeat, garant. Université Bordeaux Montaigne.
Fields of research :
- Caribbean and Guyanese Literatures in English (20th-21st)
- American literature with a special emphasis on African-American letters (20th)
Selected publications
- Penser la ligne brisée : Études réunies par Anne Chassagnol, Camille Joseph et Andrée-Anne Kekeh-Dika. Epistémocritique, https://epistemocritique.org/penser-la-ligne-brisee/ 2021. [ISBN numérique PDF 979-10-97-361-10-5].
- Jamaica Kincaid as Crafter and Grafter : Agency, Practice, Interventions, eds. C. Bigot, A.A. Kekeh-Dika, N. Setti, K.J Wallart. Wagadu : A Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies vol. 19, 2018 http://sites.cortland.edu/wagadu/ [2019 print].
- “Jamaica Kincaid’s Autobiographical Performance, or what Happens to Lines Deviated” in The Self as Other in Minority American Life Writing, eds. Nelly Mok & Claudine Raynaud. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.
- L’imaginaire de Jamaica Kincaid, variations autour d’une île caraïbe, Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, 2016.
- Toni Morrison : Au-delà du visible ordinaire / Beyond the Ordinary Visible, dir. A.A Kekeh-Dika, M. Graham, J. Mayes. Presses universitaires de Vincennes, 2014.
- « Paris ou Paris : quand le littéraire fraye avec le botanique ». http://www.bibliotheque-numerique-paris8.fr/fre/notices/167902—Naming-and-narrating-transferts-critiques-et-dynamiques-des-savoirs.html. dir. Lori Maguire & Yves Abrioux, dir. September 11, 2014.
E-mail : aakekeh[at]univ-paris8.fr