Review Essays
Paradigms Lost: a Review Essay of Christian Mair, ed., The Politics of English as a World Language: New Horizons in Postcolonial Cultural Studies
Chantal Zabus
biography
Chantal Zabus is Professor of British and Postcolonial Literatures, and of African literatures at the Universities of Paris III and XIII. A member of the Institut Universitaire de France, Chantal Zabus is a recent recipient of a medal at the College de France from French President Nicolas Sarkozy. She is the author of The African Palimpsest- Indigenization of Language in the African Europhone Novel (Amsterdam & New York: RODOPI, 1991; 2nd reprint 2007); Tempests after Shakespeare (New York & Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2002); Between Rites and Rights: Excision in Women’s Texts and Human Contexts, (Stanford University Press, Summer 2007). She has also edited Le Secret: Motif et moteur de la littérature (with Jacques Derrida, Louvain, 1999); Changements au féminin en Afrique noire: Littérature et Anthropologie, 2 volumes(Paris: L’Harmattan, 2000; Italian transl. 2003), Fearful Symmetries: Essays and Testimonies Around Excision and Circumcision (Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi/Matatu, 2009), and Perennial Empire (with Silvia Nagy-Zekmi; Rodopi B. V., in press 2009). One of her recent projects concerns homosexualities in African Literature (see “Out in Africa: Queer Desire in Some Anthropological and Literary Texts” Comparative Critical Studies. 6, 251-270, 2009).