Research
Interests
- African and Caribbean Literatures in French
- Applications of semantics to problems specific to African languages and literatures
- Semantics of irony in African literary discourse
- Women authors of the African diaspora
- Post-colonial literary theory and African feminism
- Disability studies
- Authors such as Ousmane Sembène, Ahmadou Kourouma, Calixthe Beyala and Maryse Condé.
Current Project
G. Onyeoziri and Robert Miller, Guest Editors, issue on Maryse Condé, Alternative francophone, to appear in June 2021.
Former Project
“Utopian Memory: remembering as utopianism in African and Caribbean francophone literatures”
(SSHRC Insight Grant, 2017-2020)
Publications
Books
Shaken Wisdom: Irony and Meaning in Postcolonial African Fiction (University of Virginia Press, 2011).
La parole poétique d’Aimé Césaire (L’Harmattan, 1992).
Articles and Book Chapters
G. Onyeoziri and R. Miller, “La forêt comme lieu de mémoire et d’oubli dans Les aubes écarlates et La saison de l’ombre de Léonora Miano”. Voix plurielles 16.2 (2019), pp. 59-73.
“Les aubes écarlates de Léonora Miano: la critique de l’oubli”, Cahiers du GRELCEF, 10 (2018), pp. 71-88.
Onyeoziri, Gloria, « Les Aubes écarlates de Léonora Miano: la critique de l’oubli », Cahiers du GRELCEF, 10 (2018): 71-88.
«La femme et la mémoire-colère: le déséquilibre féminin comme forme mémorielle dans trois romans caribéens», Diasporiques: mémoire, diasporas et formes du roman francophone contemporain, sous la direction de Tara Collington et François Paré, Ottawa : Éditions David, 2013. 333-349.
“Simone Schwarz-Bart and Marie-Célie Agnant as « interprètes » of Caribbean Orality”, in Francophone Cultures and Geographies of Identity, H. Adlai Murdoch and Zsuzsanna
Fagyal, eds., Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013. 260-274.
« L’oralité transposée des femmes africianes : ‘The Headstrong Historian’ de Chimamanda Adiche, in Traditions orales postcoloniales, sous la direction de Luc Fotsing et Moustapha Fall, Paris : L’Harmattan, 2014. 41-50.
Robert Miller and Gloria Onyeoziri, “Willful and/or Imposed Alienation in Recent African Emigration Narratives: Fatou Diome’s Ventre de l’Atlantique, Henri Lopes’ Une Enfant de Poto-Poto and Chimamanda Adichie’s The Thing Around Your Neck,” in Fears, Doubts and Joys of Not Belonging, B. Fishkin, A. Ankumah & B. Ndi, eds. Mankan, Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaa Research and Publishing, 2014. 197-214.
“Gisèle Pineau et l’oralité mondialisée”, Nouvelles Études Francophones 27.2 (2012) 17-29.
“The Filmmaker-narrator as a Reflection of/on Postcolonial African Cinema: Henri Lopes’s Le lys et le flamboyant (1997) and Assia Djebar’s La femme sans sépulture”, International Journal of Francophone Studies, 14.3 (2011), 381-96.
« In the Face of the Daughter: Feminist Perspectives on Métissage as a Gendered Concept in the Works of Maryse Condé » in Emerging Perspectives on Maryse Condé, a Writer of Her Own, S. Barbour & G. Herndon, eds. (Africa World Press/Sea Press) [in press].
“Henri Lopes and the Postcolonial Riddle of Métis Identity”, International Journal of Francophone Studies, 6.1 (2003) 43-52.
“Revisiting the “Roman de la Désillusion”: A Semiotic and Cultural Reading of Ousmane Sembène’s Xala,” in Francophone Post-Colonial Studies, K. Sahli, ed. (Lexington Books, 2003).
