Author: Ginette Curry
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Website: www.fiu.edu/~curryg
Ginette Curry holds a Ph.D. in African American/Post-Colonial Literatures, a B.A. in Italian and a M.A in International Relations from the Sorbonne University, Paris III.
She has been teaching in the English Department at Florida International University and is an Affiliate Faculty of FIU African and African Diaspora Studies Program and the FIU Women Studies Program. She is also an Affiliate faculty of the Initiative on Race, Gender and Globalization (IRGG) at Yale University.
Ginette Curry is the author of "Awakening African Women: The Dynamics of Change" published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in 2004. Her second book entitled “Toubab La!†Literary Representations of Mixed-Race Characters in the African Diaspora was published in 2007 (Cambridge Scholars Publishing).
Dr. Curry also wrote recent book reviews in African Studies Review (ASR), JENDA (A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies), Affilia (A Journal of Women and Social Work) and West Africa Review (WAR). In the past years and in the FIU African and African Diaspora Program, she has designed and taught several literature courses at the graduate and undergraduate level.
In 2007, her book chapter entitled “African Literature†was published in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Cultures: Sub-Saharan Africa. Also, in July 2008, Dr. Curry’s article “African Women, Tradition and Change in Cheikh Hamidou Kane’s Ambiguous Adventure (1962) and Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter (1982)†appeared in The Journal of Pan African Studies, a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary peer-reviewed academic journal.
Finally, Dr. Curry is in the process of finalizing two upcoming book publications on pre-colonial Africa and multiracial themes in African-European literature.
BOOK REVIEW: "TOUBAB LA!" LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS OF MIXED-RACE CHARACTERS IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007)
REFERENCE AND RESEARCH BOOK NEWS, May 2009:
Curry (Florida International U.) explores the way that mixed- race characters are presented by contemporary male and female writers of the African diaspora... works by US writers James McBride, Danzy Senna, and Rebecca Walker; French Caribbean writers Mayotte Capecia, Michele Lacrosil, and Raphael Confiant; British Caribbean writers Derek Walcott and Michelle Cliff; European writers Marie N'Diaye, Zadie Smith, and Bernardine Evaristo; and African continental writers Monique Ilboudo, Bessie Head, and Abdoulaye Sadji, adapting her varied theoretical approaches according to context.
Overall, she shows the way that mixed- race characters contest or refuse racial cliches and how the authors themselves deal with the complex reality of a multiracial identity in the modern world.
