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Medoune Gueye

Medoune Gueye, Associate Professor of French

Medoune Gueye, Associate Professor of French
Medoune Gueye, Associate Professor of French

Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures
321 Major Williams Hall 
220 Stanger Street 
Blacksburg, VA 24061
540-231-5361 | mgueye@vt.edu

Medoune Gueye is an associate professor of French in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures. He is currently working on a study of the emergence of the first generation of women writers and the literary field in Senegal.

  • French and Francophone Studies
  • Senegalese Women Writers
  • Francophone African Cinema
  • PhD, University of Cincinnati
  • BA, University of Dakar (UCAD), Senegal
  • Assistant editor, The French Review
  • American Association of Teachers of French
  • Director Virginia Tech Senegal Summer Program

Books

Aminata Sow Fall: oralité et société dans l’œuvre romanesque.  Paris: L’Harmattan 2005.

Journal Articles

“Critique et écriture de l'oralité dans le roman africain : discursivité orale chez Aminata Sow Fall. ” Traditions orales postcoloniales.  Eds. Luc Fotsing Fondjo and Moustapha Fall. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2014. 51-60.

“Criticism, écriture, and Orality in the African Novel: Oral Discourse in Aminata Sow Fall’s Work. ”  Research in African Literatures 45.2 (Summer 2014): 86-120. 

“African Mythic Context and Postcolonial Philosophy in Aminata Sow Fall's Le Jujubier du patriarche. ”Journal of African Literature and Culture 6 (2009): 105-120.

L’Appel des arènes: A Postcolonial Development of the Buildungsroman.”  The Coastal Review 1 (2007).   28 March 2007.

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