"Ethicalizing Caribbean Thought: An African Contribution" - Hanétha Vété-Congolo, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures –
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Hanétha Vété-Congolo is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures. Her research is anchored in African and Caribbean orality, women’s studies, and African, Caribbean, and French thought, literatures, and cultures. Her academic and creative publications include L’interoralité caribéenne: le mot conté de l‘identité (Vers un traité d’esthétique caribéenne), Léon-Gontran Damas : Une Négritude entière, Le conte d’hier, aujourd’hui, The Caribbean Oral Tradition, Avoir et Être, ce que j’Ai ce que je Suis and Mon parler de Guinée.
The Longfellow Professorship was established by the College’s governing boards in 1876.
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