Frieda Ekotto

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. Ekotto was born in Cameroon and was raised in Switzerland. Quotes The continually changing world demands that we rapidly reshape and redefine our relationships to others in both political discourse and cultural production. Still Waiting for a Visa Lorde has had to create her own dream, which is a question of language. How do people—and perhaps particularly women—with queer, Black queer bodies talk about themselves if they are not part of the essential conversation of the American dream? Mapping Possibilities: The Poetics of Queering Blackness External Links Category:Authors from Cameroon Category:Novelists from Cameroon Category:LGBT people Category:Living people Category:University of Michigan faculty