37.2103, Confs: Panel at the Northeast Modern Languages Association's 58th Annual Convention (USA)

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Date: 16-Jun-2026
From: Diweng Mercy Dafong [mdafong at ua.edu]
Subject: Panel at the Northeast Modern Languages Association's 58th Annual Convention


Panel at the Northeast Modern Languages Association's 58th Annual
Convention
Short Title: NeMLA 2027
Theme: From Migritude to Fémigritude: African Women Writers Theorizing
Migration and Displacement

Date: 06-Mar-2027 - 09-Mar-2027
Location: Newport, RI, USA
Contact: Diweng Mercy Dafong
Contact Email: mdafong at crimson.ua.edu
Meeting URL: https://www.nemla.org/convention.html

Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation; Ling & Literature

>From Migritude to Fémigritude: African Women Writers Theorizing
Migration and Displacement
Inspired by Jacques Chevrier's notion of migritude, which identifies a
body of African writing concerned with migration, exile, and
displacement (Chevrier 97-102), and building on Filomina Chioma
Steady's conception of African feminism as rooted in women's material
realities, survival, and collective well-being (Steady 8-15), this
panel proposes fémigritude as a framework for reading African women's
literary and cultural representations of migration and displacement.
This panel welcomes papers on African women writers and filmmakers
whose works interrogate the gendered dimensions of migration,
examining how displacement transforms kinship structures, renders
motherhood politically precarious, exposes women and children to state
and structural violence, and reveals the intersecting forces of
patriarchy, nationalism, neoliberalism, and border regimes. These
cultural works see migration as a structural situation influenced by
necropolitics, border regimes, insecurity, terrorism, and global
inequity. The aim of this panel is to develop the concept of
fémigritude as a framework for understanding African women’s
representations of migration and displacement, through discussions of
literature, film, autobiography, testimony, performance, and other
cultural forms, the panel explores how African women writers and
filmmakers theorize mobility, survival, resistance, agency, and
belonging.
Keywords: Migritude, fémigritude, migration, displacement,
necropolitics
Please submit your abstract of 250–300 words at
https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/22464 or send abstracts and short bio
to Diweng M. Dafong at mdafong at ua.edu.



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