Ayo A. Coly

Selected Publications

• "The Idea of Africa: Queer Visual Arts, Time, and the Postcolonial Archive." African Arts Spring 2026 • Vol. 59, No. 1

• Postcolonial Hauntologies: African Women's Discourses of the Female Body. (University of Nebraska Press, 2019.)

• The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood: Gender, Migration, and the Claims of Postcolonial Nationhood in Francophone African Literatures. (Lexington Books, 2010)

• Homophobic Africa?, editor; special issue of African Studies Review, special issue 56.2 (2013)

   

• "He who Sows Colonization Will Reap Immigration: Some Insights from the New Migritude." The Minnesota Review  94 (Spring 2020)

• "Alain Mabanckou and the Category of World Literature." Research in African Literatures 51.3 (Summer 2020)

             

• "Conceptualizing Medical Humanities Programs in Low-Resource Settings in Africa." with Quentin Eichabaum and al. Academic Medicine, Vol. 94, No. 8 / August 2019.

• "The Invention of the Homosexual: How Homophobia became a Political Strategy in Senegal." Gender and Sexuality in Senegal. Eds. M'Baye Babacar and Besi Muhonja. Lexington Books, 2019. 27-52.

• "Carmen Goes Postcolonial, Carmen Goes Queer: Thinking the Postcolonial as Queer." Culture, Theory and Critique 57.3 (2016): 391-407

   

• "Un/Clothing African Womanhood: Colonial Statements and Postcolonial Discourses of the African Female Body." The Journal of Contemporary African Studies 33.1 (2015): 12-26. 

• "Afropean Masculinities as Bricolage." Francophone Afropean Literatures. Eds Nicki Hitchcott and Dominic Thomas. Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press, 2014. 155-170.

• "Homophobic Africa?" African Studies Review 56.2 (2013): 21-32.

• "A Pedagogy of the Black Female Body: Angèle Essamba's Black Female Nudes." Third Text 24.6 (2010): 653-664.

•  "Housing and Homing the Black Female Body in France: Calixthe Beyala and the Legacy of Sarah Baartman and Josephine Baker." Black Womanhood: Icons, Images and Ideologies of the African Body. University of Washington Press, 2008.  259-278.

• The Cultures and Letters of the Black Diaspora, editor with Ivy G. Wilson; special issue of Callaoo 30.2 (2007)

•  "Black is the Color of the Cosmos or Callaloo and The Cultures of the Diaspora Now,"  with Ivy G. Wilson;  Callaloo 30.2 (2007): 415-419

• "Male Wives, Female Husbands: Immigration, Gender and Home." Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 32.3-4 (2005): 325-342.

• "Court Poet and Wild Child: Two Readings of Calixthe Beyala's Les Honneurs perdus" Nottingham French Studies 43.3 (2004): 15-27.

• "Neither Here Nor There: Calixthe Beyala's Collapsing Homes." Research in African Literatures 33.2 (2002): 34-45.

   

•  "Autobiography or Autojustification: Re-reading Bugul's Le baobab fou." The Literary Griot 11.2 (1999): 56-69.