Critical Bibliography

Anim-Addo, J. ‘Imoinda Birthing the Creole Nation: Rewriting Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko,’ in Rubik M, Figueroa-Dorrego, J & Dhuciq, B (eds.) Revisiting and Reinterpreting Aphra Behn: Proceedings of the Aphra Behn Europe Seminar ESSE Conference, Strasbourg 2002, Entrevaux, France: Bilingua GA Editions, 2003. pp. 75-82.

________________ ‘To Begin Our Knowing’: The Claiming of Authority and the Writing of ‘Imoinda’, in Covi, G (ed), Voci femminili caraibiche e interculturalita, Trento: Editrice Universita degli Studi di Trento, Dipartimento di Scienze Filogiche e Storiche, Labirinti 68, 2003.  pp. 81-87.

Batista Dos Santos, F. ‘Joan Anim-Addo’s libretto Imoinda: Revisiting a Colonial Critique and Considering Media’ in Imoinda:Criticism & Response, New Mango Season, Vol 3, No 3, 2010, pp.208-214.

Bacon, S. ‘To Keep or not to Keep?  Autonomy, Abjection and Motherhood in Joan Anim-Addo’s Imoinda  and  Jean Pierre Jeunet’s Alien Resurrection in Imoinda:Criticism & Response, New Mango Season, Vol 3, No 3, 2010, pp.215-224.

Bonnelame, N. ‘From Restoration to Creolisation: Joan Anim-Addo’s Imoinda as 21st century Afromodernist Woman’ in Imoinda:Criticism & Response, New Mango Season, Vol 3, No 3, 2010, pp.225-235.

Covi, G. ‘Da Aphra Behn a Joan Anim-Addo: Quando Gender e Creolité Scrivono La Storia Della Schiavitú’ in Covi, G (ed), Voci femminili caraibiche e interculturalita, Trento: Editrice Universita degli Studi di Trento, Dipartimento di Scienze Filogiche e Storiche, Labirinti 68, 2003.  pp. 97-109.

Covi, G. ‘Oroonoko’s Genderization and Creolization: Joan Anim-Addo’s Imoinda’, in Rubik M, Figueroa-Dorrego, J & Dhuciq, B (eds) Revisiting and Reinterpreting Aphra Behn: Proceedings of the Aphra Behn Europe Seminar ESSE Conference, Strasbourg 2002, Entrevaux, France: Bilingua GA Editions, 2003. pp. 83-92.

Dini Ciacci, M. ‘Opinioni Di Un Musicista Sull’Opera Imoinda: Intervista Condotta Da Chiara Pedrotti’ in Covi, G (ed), Voci femminili caraibiche e interculturalita, Trento: Editrice Universita degli Studi di Trento, Dipartimento di Scienze Filogiche e Storiche, Labirinti 68, 2003.  pp. 89-96.

Edwin, M. ‘What we Remember the Whip Can’t Undo’: Memory and H(er)story in Joan Anim-Addo’s Imoinda’ in Imoinda:Criticism & Response, New Mango Season, Vol 3, No 3, 2010, pp.236-247.

Golding V. ‘Space: The Museum and the New Spatial Politics of the Frontiers’ in Learning at the Museum Frontiers: Identity, Race and Power, England: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2009, pp. 41-67.

Guarracino, S. ‘Imoinda’s Performing Bodies: An Interview with Joan Anim-Addo’ in Anim-Addo, J & Scafe, S (eds) I Am Black/White/Yellow: An Introduction to the Black Body in Europe, London: Mango Publishing, 2007, pp. 212-23.

Marima, T. ‘Talking through the ‘door of no return’: Ama Ata Aidoo’s Anowa and Joan Anim-Addo’s Imoinda’ in Imoinda:Criticism & Response, New Mango Season, Vol 3, No 3, 2010, pp.248-261.

Conference Papers

Anim-Addo, J. ‘Imoinda: Journey beyond Text (physical)’ Words from Other Worlds: Critical Perspectives on Imoinda, held at Goldsmiths, University of London, November 2009.

Anim-Addo, J. ‘Authorizing the Slave Woman’s Voice in the Text Imoinda’, EACLALS Triennial Conference 2008: Try Freedom: Rewriting Rights in/through Postcolonial Cultures, Venice, Italy, 25-29 March 2008.

Covi, G. ‘Translation and Publication of Imoinda in Italy’, Words from Other Worlds: Critical Perspectives on Imoinda, held at Goldsmiths, University of London, November 2009.

Covi, G. ‘Publishing and Translating Imoinda: Interpellation and the Re-Presentation of Humanity’, EACLALS Triennial Conference 2008: Try Freedom: Rewriting Rights in/through Postcolonial Cultures, Venice, Italy, 25-29 March 2008.

Gbadamosi, R. ‘Where Imagination Hits Reality: Visualising the Self in Imoinda’, Words from Other Worlds: Critical Perspectives on Imoinda, held at Goldsmiths, University of London, November 2009.

Karavanta, M. ‘Imoinda's return act: the making of community and the quest of the political’, Words from Other Worlds: Critical Perspectives on Imoinda, held at Goldsmiths, University of London, November 2009.

Karavanta, M. ‘The Specter of Imoinda: Un-writing, Re-righting, Claiming the Right to a community-yet-to-come’, EACLALS Triennial Conference 2008: Try Freedom: Rewriting Rights in/through Postcolonial Cultures, Venice, Italy, 25-29 March 2008.

Lima, M. ‘The Choice of Opera for a Revisionist Tale: Imoinda as Neo-Slave Narrative’, Words from Other Worlds: Critical Perspectives on Imoinda, held at Goldsmiths, University of London, November 2009.

Marima, T. ‘Slavery's She Rebels: A Comparative of Anowa (1985) & Imoinda: Or She who will lose her Name (2003)’, Writing, Diaspora & the Legacy of Slavery, Goldsmiths, University of London 2007.

McClure, G and Tirre, A. ‘Imoinda: Processes of Musical Composition and Casting’, Words from Other Worlds: Critical Perspectives on Imoinda, held at Goldsmiths, University of London, November 2009.

Morgan, N.  ‘Look how I have changed the world': Derridean impossibility and the event of Justice to come in Joan Anim-Addo's Imoinda: Or She Who Will Lose Her Name, Writing, Diaspora & the Legacy of Slavery, Goldsmiths, University of London 2007.

Scafe, S.  ‘Tracing the scars of my Knowledge’: Joan Anim-Addo’s Imoinda and Dionne Brand’s Door of No Return, Writing, Diaspora & the Legacy of Slavery, Goldsmiths, University of London 2007.

Batista Dos Santos, F, Bonnelame, N, Edwin, M and Marima, T. Imoinda: Trans-global Conversations, 2010 (on DVD)