Gloria Onyeoziri-Miller
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
“Utopian Memory: remembering as utopianism in African and Caribbean francophone literatures”
(SSHRC Insight Grant, 2017-2020)
SELECTED 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
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).