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Rita Keresztesi
Rita Keresztesi is a professor of English, specializing in African and Africa diaspora literary and cultural studies, African cinema and decolonial studies. Her first monograph, Strangers at Home: American Ethnic Modernism between the World Wars (University of Nebraska Press, 2005), discusses literary modernism from the perspectives of early twentieth-century immigrant, native American and African American writers. She co-edited The Western in the Global South (Routledge, 2015), which investigates the western film genre’s impact, migrations and reconfigurations in the Global South. Her second monograph, Literary Black Power in the Caribbean: Fiction, Music and Film (Routledge, 2020), focuses on how writers and musicians responded to the political message and agenda of Black power in the Caribbean region. She is currently completing a book manuscript titled Screen Griots: African Cinema’s Alternative Archives (forthcoming), which addresses the epistemological challenges to locally produced archival practices, such as storytelling through film and music, to decolonize memory and historical ‘facts’.
Contact: Department of English, Cate Center Two, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA.