Antoinette Tidjani Alou Explained

Birth Place:Jamaica
Citizenship:Niger
Occupation:Writer and academic
Education:University of the West Indies
Bordeaux Montaigne University
Doctoral Advisor:Jack Corzani
Workplaces:Abdou Moumouni University
Thesis Title:Le premier théâtre claudélien : naissance du drame et drame de la naissance
Thesis Url:https://www.theses.fr/1991BOR30033
Thesis Year:1991
Known For:Research into women's writing of the Sahel

Antoinette Tidjani Alou is a Jamaican-Nigerien academic, film-maker and writer, whose work focuses on the constructions of Sahelian identity in written and oral literature, as well as women in Sahelian identities. She published a novel On m'appelle Nina in 2016 and a collection of poems with a memoir Tina shot me between the eyes and other stories in 2017. She is a lecturer in Comparative Literature and in 2016 was appointed Coordinator of the Arts and Culture Department at Abdou Moumouni University in Niger.

Early life and education

Antoinette Tidjani Alou was born in Jamaica and her secondary education took place at Convent of Mercy Academy 'Aplaha' in Kingston.[1] She studied at the University of the West Indies in Kingston where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree. She continued her studies and was awarded a doctorate at the University Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux 3.[2] She defended her thesis in 1991 on the dramatic works of Paul Claudel.[3]

Teaching and research

Tidjani Alou began teaching French and comparative literature at Abdou Moumouni University in Niamey in 1994. She is a lecturer in Comparative Literature and in 2016 was appointed Coordinator of the Arts and Culture Department.[4] Her research focuses on the constructions of Sahelian identity in written and oral literature, as well as the political constructions of identity. She is also an expert on depictions of the mytho-historical figure of Sarraounia.[5] [6]

In 2006, she was appointed president of the International Society for the Oral Literatures of Africa (ISOLA), a position she held for eight years.[7] She has worked on the Women Writing Africa Project and is a member of the research group Literature, Gender and Development: Nigerien Visions and Perspectives.[8] [9]

Literary career

Between her childhood in Jamaica, her university education in France, and her professional life in Niger, Tidjani Alou has adapted to different cultures.[10] She published her first novel, On m'appelle Nina in 2016 with Présence Africaine. This autofiction retraces the journey of a woman, Vilhelminma, who leaves Jamaica to settle for love in Niger.[11] The character finds herself confronted with a society that refuses to open up to her, considers her as a foreigner - a “white black”.[12] She also deals with the variations of pain, trauma and bereavement, as the character has to deal with the death of her 16-year-old child.[13] It drew comparisons with the works of Maryse Conde.[14]

The following year, she published Tina shot me between the eyes and other stories, a collection of poems and a memoir, with the Senegalese publisher Amalion.[15] In it she explores how the self is shaped and transformed by our relationships. She is also a freelance translator and screenwriter. She collaborated with the Cameroonian filmmaker Jean-Marie Teno in 2010 to write for the film Toutes voiles dehors.[16]

Selected publications

Creative writing

Academic works

References

  1. Web site: Chin . Audrey . 2021-08-23 . Writers I Read: In Conversation with Antoinette Tidjani Alou . 2022-12-27 . audreychin . en.
  2. Web site: Pr Antoinette Tidjani pour la promotion des arts et la culture à L'UAMD . 2022-12-27 . Nigerinter . 12 May 2016 . fr-FR.
  3. Le premier théâtre claudélien : naissance du drame et drame de la naissance . Bordeaux 3 . 1991-01-01 . These de doctorat . Antoinette . Tidjani Alou.
  4. Web site: Essakni . Mounia . 2021-04-27 . Littérature / On m'appelle Nina / Un journal intime dans l'anonymat / Antoinette Tidjani Alou. . 2022-12-27 . Africa By Art . en-GB.
  5. Web site: A Talk with Antoinette Tidjani Alou, Nigerian Fiction Writer and Poet . 2022-12-27 . ruafrica.rutgers.edu . en-gb.
  6. Book: Falola . Toyin . Africans and the Politics of Popular Culture . Agwuele . Augustine . 2009 . University Rochester Press . 978-1-58046-331-7 . 81 . en.
  7. Web site: Littérature orale: Un colloque pour sa valorisation FratMat . 2022-12-27 . www.fratmat.info.
  8. Web site: Personnes Africultures : Tidjani Alou Antoinette . 2022-12-27 . Africultures . fr-FR.
  9. Web site: TIDJANI ALOU, Antoinette The International Writing Program . 2022-12-27 . iwp.uiowa.edu.
  10. Olatoun Gabi-Williams, Antoinette Tidjani Alou: "Tina shot me between the eyes and other stories" [PDF], sur bordersliteratureonline.net, 2018
  11. Web site: Teno . Jean-Marie . 2017-05-02 . On m'appelle Nina, De Antoinette Tijani Alou . 2022-12-27 . Africultures . fr-FR.
  12. Web site: Lu pour vous : On m'appelle Nina d'Antoinette Tidjani Alou : le beau regard incisif d'une femme qui se reste et se construit . 2022-12-27 . Nigerinter . 18 May 2017 . fr-FR.
  13. Web site: Balicki . Joshua . Nigerien author Antoinette Tidjani Alou to read at Prairie Lights . 2022-12-27 . The Daily Iowan.
  14. Koffi . -Tessio Marie H. . 2017-07-01 . On m'appelle Nina, Antoinette Tidjani Alou . Tydskrif vir Letterkunde . 54 . 2 . 168–169 . 10.17159/tvl.v.54i2.2975 . 1 November 2024 . 10520/EJC-99645c04f .
  15. Web site: 2019-08-02 . Vignettes on our lives and dreams . 2022-12-27 . The Mail & Guardian . en-ZA.
  16. Web site: Africiné - Toutes voiles dehors (Secret Faces) [in development] ]. 2022-12-27 . Africiné . fr.
  17. Book: Tidjani Alou, Antoinette . On m'appelle Nina : autofiction . 2017 . 978-2-7087-0898-3 . Paris . 1002301590.
  18. Book: Tidjani Alou, Antoinette . Tina shot me between the eyes : and other stories . 2017 . 978-2-35926-072-4 . Dakar, Senegal . 1005196498.
  19. Alou . A. T. . 2007-09-27 . Myths of a New World in Édouard Glissant's novels La Lézarde and Le Quatrième siècle . Tydskrif vir Letterkunde . en . 44 . 2 . 163–187 . 10.4314/tvl.v44i2.29798 . 2309-9070. free .
  20. Alou . Antoinette Tidjani . 2009 . Niger and Sarraounia: One Hundred Years of Forgetting Female Leadership . Research in African Literatures . 40 . 1 . 42–56 . 10.2979/RAL.2009.40.1.42 . 145389844 . 1527-2044.
  21. Book: Falola . Toyin . Africans and the Politics of Popular Culture . Agwuele . Augustine . 2009 . University Rochester Press . 978-1-58046-331-7 . en.
  22. Tidjani Alou . Antoinette . 2010-06-01 . Ancestors from the East, Spirits from the West. Surviving and Reconfiguring the Exogenous Violence of Global Encounters in the Sahel . Journal des africanistes . en . 80–1/2 . 75–92 . 10.4000/africanistes.2323 . 0399-0346.
  23. Tidjani-Alou . Antoinette . 2011 . "Back to Africa, Miss Mattie?": Autobiographical Notes from Global Africa on Apprehending Texts and Subtexts of Popular Culture . The Global South . 5 . 2 . 139–153 . 10.2979/globalsouth.5.2.139 . 10.2979/globalsouth.5.2.139 . 145311496 . 1932-8648.
  24. Book: Alou . Antoinette Tidjani . Epistemology, Fieldwork, and Anthropology . Sardan . Jean-Pierre Olivier de . 2016-04-30 . Springer . 978-1-137-47788-0 . en.
  25. Alou . Antoinette Tidjani . 2020 . Reel Resistance: the Cinema of Jean-Marie Teno . Tydskrif vir Letterkunde . 57 . 2 . 113–114 . 10.17159/tl.v57i2.8549 . 229490353 . 0041-476X. free .
  26. Alou . Antoinette Tidjani . 2022 . Sarraounia, love, and the postcolony . Tydskrif vir Letterkunde . 59 . 3 . 27–34 . 10.17159/tl.v59i3.14321 . 252374868 . 0041-476X. free .

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