Nathalie Etoké

Nathalie Etoké (born June 20, 1977 in Paris ) is a Cameroonian Africanist and writer.

Life

Nathalie Etoké lived in Cameroon from 1978 to 1995 and returned to France to study. She studied in Lille for five years and graduated with a Masters in Modern Literature . In 2001 she went to the USA and continued her studies at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois . There she received her PhD in French in June 2006. Etoké was also a visiting scholar at Brown University . After completing her doctorate, she held an assistant professorship in French & Africana Studies in the Department of French at Connecticut College .

Nathalie Etoké works on African film, theater and philosophy and on LGBT in the context of the African diaspora . She deals with the “Melancholia Africana” ( “loss, mourning and survival in Africa, America and the Caribbean” ) and cultural-scientific aspects of immigration, post-colonial French identities, French hip-hop and urban film.

Etoké wrote numerous short stories, poems, articles, novellas.

Publications (selection)

• Un amour sans papiers . Editions Cultures Croisées, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-913059-03-1 (novel)
• Je vois du soleil dans tes yeux. Presses de l'Université Catholique d'Afrique Centrale (PUCAC), Yaoundé, Cameroun 2008, ISBN 2-84849-032-2 (novel)
• L'écriture du corps féminin dans la littérature de l'Afrique francophone au sud du Sahara. L'Harmatton, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-296-12443-1

Web links

• Literature by and about Nathalie Etoké in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Nathalie Etoke. Retrieved October 10, 2017 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Nathalie Etoké , short biography, Department of French and Italian, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences, Northwestern University. Retrieved October 10, 2017.
3. ↑ Review: Mbella Bwelle Ekuma: Je vois du soleil dans tes yeux ou Le cri de révolte de la jeunesse africaine! In: AfrikiBouge of March 27, 2008. Retrieved October 12, 2017 (French).