Subha Xavier, “Wretched of the Sea: African Migrant Boat Narratives in International Context”

Professor Subha Xavier is Associate Professor of French and core faculty at the Institute of African Studies at Emory University. She is author of the The Migrant Text: Making and Marketing a Global French Literature (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2016) and has authored several articles and book chapters on migrant works by authors from African, the Caribbean and Asia. Most recently, she has a forthcoming book chapter on migrant boat narratives with Cambridge University Press and an co-edited volume on Migrant Texts from Sub-Saharan Africa with Presses universitaires de Rennes.