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Peter Thompson has taught in prep schools (hence the misadventures chronicled in the Harrison Rhodes novels) for 18 years, and in college for 23.
After early work on Antonin Artaud, Léon-Paul Fargue and Gérard de Nerval, his research has centered on the Négritude movement and on African heritage literature.
Book titles are on this site and articles and conferences are on the c.v. page. The latter lists are abridged.
Articles (recent):
"From Negritude to Multiculturalism: A Look Back," Academic Exchange Quarterly, Volume 3 no. 1, 1999
"Negritude and A New Africa: An Update," Research In African Literatures, volume 33 no. 4, 2002.
(also appears in the anthology African Literature: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory, Quayson and Olinayan eds., 2007.)
"Nabile Farès: Translation and Alterity," Expressions Maghrébines, Volume 17 no. 2, 2018.
"Une Traduction," in the book Hommage Collectif: Nabile Farés. Algiers: Editions Koukou, 2019.
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