Areas of Interest
- Autobiography
- Repetition: Theory and Practice
- Psychoanalysis and Race
- Edward W. Said
- Postcolonial Theory
- African Literatures. Migrations of Theory and Culture
- Narratives of Mourning; Repetition (Africa and the Diaspora)
Publications
“‘Restraint . . . my style’: deliberative and mournful,” PMLA 129.2 (2014): 243–45
“Text-Context: Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s A Grain of Wheat as Testimony,” Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ngugi wa Thiong’o, ed. Oliver Lovesey (New York: MLA Publications, 2012), 171–180.
“Orality and the Genres of African Postcolonial Literatures,” Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literatures, ed. Ato Quayson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 137–170.
“Enlightenment Epistemology and the Invention of Polygyny,” African Literature: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory eds. Tejumola Olaniyan and Ato Quayson (London: Blackwell, 2007), 573–584.
“Psychoanalysis and African Literature,” Research in African Literatures 38.2 (Summer 2007): 143–205
“The Short Century and After: Literature in Africa and the Diaspora,” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/Review Canadienne de Littérature Comparée 32. 3–4 (September–December/Septembre–Décembre, 2005): 280–498 (With Abdul–Rasheed Na’Allah and Harry Garuba)
“Critique and Extension: Said and Freud,” Research in African Literatures” 36.3 (Fall 2005): 98–111.
“Calibrations: Literary Reference and the Ethics of Reading,” Research in African Literatures 36.2 (Summer 2005): 112–121.
“Coming to Terms with Cultural Nationalism: Gikandi’s ‘The Short Century,’” New Formations 51
Critical Essays on Christopher Okigbo (Hall, 2000).
"Enlightenment Epistemology and 'Aesthetic Cognition': Mariama Bâ's So Long a Letter," The Politics of (M)Othering: Womanhood, Identity, and Resistance in African Literature, ed. Obioma Nnaemeka (New York and London: Routledge, 1997).
"The Nation as Contested Referent," Research in African Literatures, 24. 4 (1993): 49-62.
"Feminist Theory and the Discourse of Colonialism," ReImagining Wowen: Representations of Women in Culture, eds. Shirley Neuman and Glennis Stephenson (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993).
"'Race' and Hermeneutics," African American Review 26. 4 (1992): 565-582.
“The Madness of Africans: Or, Anthropology’s Reason,” Cultural Critique 17 (1991).