Posted on Nov 4, 2005

Cheikh Ndiaye, assistant professor of French, gave a paper on at the 59th Annual Convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Languages Association in the Coeur D'Alene, Idaho. The paper, titled “Je parle, tu écris: Survivance de l'oralité dans l'écriture dans Solibo Magnifique de Patrick Chamoiseau,” examines the vestiges of West African oral traditions in Caribbean literature through Solibo Magnifique, a book by Chamoiseau, the 1992 Prix Goncourt winner from Martinique.