To mark the visit of a Senegalese delegation, the Culture Committee is organising a special Rencontres Littéraires event. This edition will take place on Monday 9 May 2022 from 4pm to 6pm in Amphitheatre A. Come and listen to Babou diène, Denis Assane Diouf and Mylène Danglades present their book, l'esclavage en mots/maux et en images.
L he discovery of America by the Spanish and Portuguese in the 15th century intensified their desire to exploit the many resources of the New Continent by enslaving the indigenous Indian populations. The exploitation of land and gold and silver mines on the African continent forced them to seek out a more robust and enduring slave population. And so the transatlantic slave trade began. For nearly four centuries, the trade in human beings and a flourishing industry spread to many European countries, including Great Britain, Holland, Denmark, Spain, Portugal and France.
History is littered with speeches and stories centred on Europe, Africa and the Americas, colonial slavery and abolitionist decrees.
Political, religious, scientific or pseudo-scientific and philosophical conciliations reinforced age-old positions and practices. Literature and the arts threw themselves into triangular and angular mixtures.
How do you break through the dark interweaving of the slave trade and colonial slavery, of silence and cries, of submission and revolt, of repression and commemoration?
What discourses of and about slavery are still remembered? Is the representation of this form of servitude polished, imbued with fantasy, derision, claims or sibylline traces?
Scientific research invites us to examine the geography of these historical events, dark memories and evocations that transcend time and space.
This book invites us to look at the geography of these historical events, the sombre memories and evocations that transcend time and space.
Babou DIÈNE, Senior Lecturer at the Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis (Senegal), is a teacher-researcher, Director of Publication of the review Horizons Littéraires, Director of the CERCLA Laboratory (Centre de Recherche sur la Critique Littérature Africaine), President of the Research Committee of the UFR de Lettres et Sciences Humaines and Head of the Arts, Literatures, Langues et Cultures doctoral programme. Denis Assane DIOUF is a lecturer and researcher in African literature at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar. He has also taught at the University of Guyana. As a member of the Laboratoire d'études africaines et francophones (ARCIV), he devotes his research and work to Senghor's poetry and to issues such as the postcolonial and decolonial rereading of African literature, the poetics of history and identity among émigrésMylène DANGLADES is a Senior Lecturer in Regional Cultures and Languages in the Department of Training and Research in Humanities at the University of Guyana. A lecturer and researcher, she is attached to the MINEA Laboratory (Migrations, Interculturalities and Education in Amazonia) and studies French-language literature, the quest for identity among the landlocked and colonised, human wanderings and evil in the insular, colonial or post-colonial sphere.
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