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Alioune Badara Fall
Alioune Badara Fall is an assistant professor of French and francophone studies at Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island. His research is situated at the intersection of francophone literatures and cultures and African studies with a particular interest in decolonial methodologies that take into consideration postcolonial theory and critical race theory. Dr Fall’s work explores representations of race, cultural identity and belonging in Afrodiasporic literatures and his publications include ‘The pitfalls of (anti)essentialism: Pan-Africanism, Afropolitanism and global blackness’ which appeared in Global Africa in September 2023. He is currently finishing two other articles, ‘Tropes of Africanness: Sape(ing) the single story in Black Bazar (2009)’ and ‘The labyrinth of postcolonial memory: Racial violence and colonial schizophrenia in At Night All Blood Is Black (2020)’. These texts challenge the French republic’s discourse of homogeneity in representations of race, identity and memory in the francosphere and underscore the multicultural manifestations of belonging in contemporary France.
Contact: Providence College, 1 Cunningham Square, Providence, RI 02918, USA.