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powusu@tamu.edu

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Owusu, Portia Assistant Professor

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African literature--Study and teaching
American literature
American literature--African American authors
West African literature--Social aspects

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HR job title

Assistant Professor

Publications

selected publications

academic article
- Carpi, E., & Owusu, P. (2022). Slavery, lived realities, and the decolonisation of forced migration histories: An interview with Dr Portia Owusu. Migration Studies. 10(1), 87-93.
book
- Owusu, P. (2019). Spectres from the Past, Slavery and the Politics of History in West African and African-American Literature. Taylor & Francis.
chapter
- Owusu, P. (2022). "The Goose and the Gander": Frantz Fanon and the Rhetoric of Violence in the Black Power Movement. Raussert, W., & Steunutz, M. (Eds.), Black Power in Hemispheric Perspective Movements and Cultures of Resistance in the Black Americas. (pp. 113-124). University of New Orleans Press.
- Owusu, P. (2020). (M)otherlands Homesickness and Yearnings for Home in Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing. SPECTRES FROM THE PAST: SLAVERY AND THE POLITICS OF HISTORY IN WEST AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE. (pp. 89-100).
- Owusu, P. (2020). Articulating "Silence" The Language of Death as Memory in Ama Ata Aidoo's The Dilemma of a Ghost. SPECTRES FROM THE PAST: SLAVERY AND THE POLITICS OF HISTORY IN WEST AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE. (pp. 46-59).
- Owusu, P. (2020). Bloodlines and Blurred Lines Contested Memories and Freedom in Barbara Chase-Riboud's Sally Hemings. SPECTRES FROM THE PAST: SLAVERY AND THE POLITICS OF HISTORY IN WEST AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE. (pp. 60-76).
- Owusu, P. (2020). Defining Silences Conclusion. SPECTRES FROM THE PAST: SLAVERY AND THE POLITICS OF HISTORY IN WEST AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE. (pp. 119-127).
- Owusu, P. (2020). Evoking Spectres in History Introduction. SPECTRES FROM THE PAST: SLAVERY AND THE POLITICS OF HISTORY IN WEST AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE. (pp. 1-+).
- Owusu, P. (2020). Literary Archaeology The Uncovering and Recovering of Black Historical Memory and Trauma in Toni Morrison's Beloved. SPECTRES FROM THE PAST: SLAVERY AND THE POLITICS OF HISTORY IN WEST AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE. (pp. 25-45).
- Owusu, P. (2020). The Limitations of "History" Chika Ezeanya's Re-Visioning of the Early Years of Olaudah Equiano and Slavery in Before We Set Sail. SPECTRES FROM THE PAST: SLAVERY AND THE POLITICS OF HISTORY IN WEST AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE. (pp. 77-88).
- Owusu, P. (2020). The Magic of "History" and Contradictions of "Return" to Africa in Syl Cheney-Coker's The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar. SPECTRES FROM THE PAST: SLAVERY AND THE POLITICS OF HISTORY IN WEST AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE. (pp. 101-118).
- Owusu, P. (2018). Fighting Fire with Fire. The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance. (pp. 242-246). Routledge.

Teaching

teaching activities

AFST204 Intro To African Am Lit Instructor
AFST339 African-am Lit Post-1930 Instructor
ENGL104 Composition & Rhetoric Instructor
ENGL204 Intro To African Am Lit Instructor
ENGL206 21st Cent Lit & Culture Instructor
ENGL339 African-am Lit Post-1930 Instructor
ENGL673 Topics Transnat Lit/cultr Instructor

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first name

Portia

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Owusu

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powusu@tamu.edu

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