This communication aims at critically exploring key theoretical and epistemological concepts such as “the standpoint theory with a special focus on the” outsider-within” notion and Du Bois’ “double consciousness” theory to situate my specific positionality as a visible researcher evolving in a western context. This communication will also engage with cultural productions from North Africa to examine how forms of coloniality of power, knowledge, and racialization are traceable and challenged at many levels in Muslim societies’ imaginaries.

Dr. Maroua El Naggare is an assistant professor at the Chair of Romance Literary and Comparative Studies with special focus on Africa at the University of Bayreuth. She is currently writing her habilitation thesis about Muslim Cultural Productions in African and Afro-diasporic spaces. Her research interests include Francophone literature, cinema, and graphic novels. Her latest article is entitled "Muslim’Show: Esthétique et itinéraire insolite d’une série BD in/visible", NEF, vol.37.1 (in print).

Tuesday, 18. October 2022, 5:15pm (CET)
Department of African Studies - Seminarraum 1
Universitätscampus Hof 5.1.,  Spitalgasse 2, 1090 Wien