Sylvie Kandé (State University of New York at Old Westbury, New York)

Submitted:  Tues, 18 March 2008


Sylvie Kandé, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of History & Philosophy
State University of New York, The College at Old Westbury

Mail address:
402 West 148th Street
Apt #53
New York, New York  10031 USA

phone:  (212) 368-3793
email:  sylvkan@yahoo.com


Research interests: 

New urban identities resulting from slave trade and subsequent migrations 
between Africa and the West ; Métissage & hybridity ; Literature, 
history & arts.


Selected Publications: 

BOOKS

Terres, urbanisme et architecture "créoles" en Sierra Leone, 
18ème-19ème siècles (Paris: L'Harmattan, 1998)

Discours sur le métissage, identités métisses: en 
quete d'Ariel (Paris: L'Harmattan, 1999) 

Lagon, lagunes: tableau de mémoire (Gallimard, 2000) [A poetic 
suite with an afterword by Edouard Glissant.]


ESSAYS

Forthcoming: "The caste system as a subtext in Ahmadou Kourouma's 
novels," In  Nadia Altschul & Kathleen Davis (eds.) Medievalism and the 
Post/colonial Perspective: Historical Foundations to Global Politics. John 
Hopkins University Press.

"This corpse so small left unavenged: Nicolás Guillén and 
Aimé Césaire on Emmett Till's lynching," In  Christopher 
Metress & Harriet Pollack (eds.) Emmett Till in Literary Memory and 
Imagination. University of Louisiana Press, 2008: 143-160

"Africa and the European Renaissance,"  In Simon Gikandi & Abiola Irele
(eds.) Cambridge History of African & Caribbean Literature, 2004, 569-590

"From Bandiagara to Paris: Reflections on the Travels of a Dogon Sign," 
Research in African Literatures, Poetics of African Arts, 31, 4 (Winter 1998): 21-28

"Jazz et littérature francophone., Mots Pluriels 13 (April 2000) 
http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/
[*Selected by the Oxford Text Archive, a corpus use for the teaching of French
langague and research on the features of written French expression.] 

"Look Homeward, Angel: Maroons & Mulattoes in Haile Gerima's Sankofa," 
Research in African Literatures, 29, 2 (summer 1998): 128-146

"Les coulisses d'une terminologie: l'ethnie créole de Sierra 
Leone," In C. Coquéry-Vidrovitch (ed.), Histoire Africaine du 20ème
siècle. Sociétés, villes, cultures.  Paris: L'Harmattan, 1993, 127-149


FICTION

Short stories and poems anthologized by Picador, Blind Beggar Press and 
Alberta Learning Centre Resources, and published in numerous journals, 
such as Europe, La Nouvelle Revue Française, Le Nouveau Recueil, 
Callalou, & Ponts/Ponti.