Dr Sarah Arens
Lecturer
school of modern languages
University of St Andrews
United Kingdom
Biography
currently working on a monograph manuscript on representations and imaginations of Brussels in contemporary Francophone writing
Research Interest
memory, (labour) migration, and exile in literature from North and Sub-Saharan Africa, especially from Morocco and the Great Lakes Region, and produced in the aftermath of the Belgian and French colonial empires.
Publications
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Les géographies transculturelles et postcoloniales: Bruxelles dans les écritures de Mina Oualdlhadj et de Pie Tshibanda Arens, S. 2015 In : Textyles - Revue des lettres belges de langue françaises. 47, p. 159 174 p.
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From Mobutu to Molenbeek: Belgium and Postcolonialism Arens, S. 2017 Postcolonial Europe: Comparative Reflections after the Empires. Jensen, L., Suárez-Krabbe, J., Groes-Green, C. & Lee Pecic , Z. (eds.). London: Rowman and Littlefield International, p. 163 176 p.
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Narrating the (Post-)Nation?: Aspects of the Local and the Global in Francophone Congolese Writing Arens, S. 2018 In : Research in African Literatures.
