WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21 -- ONLINE
ICM New Conversations Series
NAMINATA DIABATE
Associate Professor, Comparative Literature, Africana Studies, Cornell University
This presentation highlights the idea of diya in Malinké and its translations into French and English as plaisir and pleasure in novelistic and filmic restagings of the life of Sarraounia, the nineteenth century anti-colonial Azna warrior queen. It also explores interrelated regimes of translation of subtitling and those of adaptation, from historical facts to novel, and from novel to feature film, for a richer understanding, visibility, and celebration of the relatively obscure figure. An examination of the interface between diya and repetitive media serves in this paper as a point of departure for a reflection on the nature of plesure in twentieth century Malinké context as well as the import of comparative analysis of pleasure in Malinké and Platonic thought.
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