Frieda Ekotto

Frieda Ekotto
Frieda Ekotto photographed by Robert Demilner

Frieda Ekotto is a Francophone African woman novelist and literary critic. She is Professor of AfroAmerican and African Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan and is currently the Hunting Family Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities.[1] She is best known for her novels, which focus on gender and sexuality in Sub-Saharan Africa, and her work on the writer Jean Genet, particular her political analysis of his prison writing,[2] and his impact as a race theorist in the Francophone world.[3] Her research and teaching focuses on literature, film, race and law in the Francophone world, spanning France, Africa, the Caribbean and the Maghreb.[4]

  1. ^ "Fellows | Institute for the Humanities | University of Michigan". Archived from the original on 29 April 2013. Retrieved 25 April 2013.
  2. ^ Ekotto, F., 2001, L'Ecriture carcérale et le discours juridique: Jean Genet, Paris : L’Harmattan.,
  3. ^ Ekotto, F., 2011, Race and Sex across the French Atlantic: The Color of Black in Literary, Philosophical, and Theater Discourse (New York: Lexington Press).
  4. ^ "Frieda Ekotto Named a VIP Member of Worldwide Who's Who for Excellence in Higher Education" Archived 14 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine, 24-7 Press Release.]