Gueye Publishes Article in Journal of the African Literature Association

Dr. Marame Gueye’s article “Fatou Diome’s Le ventre de l’Atlantique: re-configuring local discourses of emigration” was just published in the Journal of the African Literature Association. This article uses Wolof idioms related to Senegalese migration to France such as dem ci kaaw bi (to go to the cave/France) and dem Jolof (to go back to Jolof/Senegal) in order to read Fatou Diome’s Le ventre de l’Atlantique (The Belly of the Atlantic). It argues that the novel mimics the polysemy of these terms and coins a new one: toog Jolof (to stay/remain in Senegal) as an alternative to clandestine migration.

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