WORCESTER, Mass. – Odile Cazenave, associate professor of French at Boston University, will give a talk titled "Violence Des Banlieues: Une Histoire Qui Ne Date Pas D’Hier" ("Urban Violence in France: Past and Present") on March 23 at 4 p.m. in Stein Hall, Room 526 at the College of the Holy Cross. The event is free and open to the public. The talk will be in French. A discussion, following the talk, will be in both French and English.
Cazenave will talk about the issues of identities and territories behind the recent French riots to compare with the representation of French/Parisian suburbs in postcolonial francophone literature by African and Franco-maghrebi writers in the past 20 years.
She has published numerous articles on women writers, on questions of identity, displacement, immigration and globalization. She is the author of Femmes rebelles: Naissance d'un nouveau roman africain au féminin (L’Harmattan, 1996) and Afrique sur Seine: A New Generation of African Writers in Paris (Lexington Books, 2005).
The event is sponsored by Africana Studies and the French section of the Modern Languages and Literatures department.
Professor of French to Discuss French Riots
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