office: 57 McReynolds phone: 573-882-3025 email: okonkwoc@missouri.edu office hours: TR 9:00-10:30
Research and teaching areas:
African American and African literature
Christopher N. Okonkwo
Christopher N. Okonkwo teaches courses in African Diaspora Studies, with a specialty in 20th-century African American literature and culture, African literature in English, and post-colonial theory. In addition to the publications cited below, his works have also appeared in other journals, including Research in African Literatures and MELUS.
Education PhD 2001, Florida State University
Selected Publications
A Spirit of Dialogue: Incarnations of Ợgbañje, the Born-to-Die, in African American Literature. University of Tennessee Press, 2008
"'Coming to America': Ike Oguine's A Squatter's Tale and the Nigerian/African Immigrant's Narrative." Forthcoming (2008) in a special issue of African Literature Today (27) on "New Novels in Africa."
"'It Was Like Meeting an Old Friend': An Interview with John Edgar Wideman." Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters 29.2 (2006). 347-360
"Of Caul and Response: Baby of the Family, Ansa's Neglected Metafiction of the Veil of Blackness." CLA Journal XLIX. 2 (December 2005). 144-167
"A Critical Divination: Reading Sula as Ogbanje-Abiku." African American Review 38.4 (Winter 2004). 651-668
Courses Taught
English 3100: Introduction to Literary Study
English 3410: African American Literature, 1900-Present
English 3410: African American Literature, 1900-Present
English 4160/7160: Major Authors (Chinua Achebe)
English 4170/7170: Comparative Approaches to Literature
English 4400/7400: Studies in Anglophone Africana Literature
English 4400: Topics or Genres in Anglophone Africana Literature
English 4970: Capstone Experience
English 8320: The Neo-Slave Narrative: Its Contexts, Politics, Aesthetics
English 8400: Seminar in Anglophone Africana Literature
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