Hanétha Vété-Congolo





Hanétha Vété-Congolo is a poet and Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Bowdoin College, Maine, as well as the President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association. She is affiliated with several academic programs, including Africana Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Gender Studies. She is also a Chercheure Associée at the Université de Perpignan Via Domitia in France.

Her research focuses on Caribbean and African thought, philosophy, literature, culture, and oral traditions, with a particular emphasis on women’s narratives from the Caribbean and West and Central Africa. She is the author of L’interoralité caribéenne: le mot conté de l’identité and editor of several works, including The Caribbean Oral Tradition and Léon-Gontran Damas: Une Négritude entière.

As a poet, her collection Womb of a Woman was shortlisted for the 2014 Small Axe Literary Competition. Her published works include Avoir et Être: Ce que j’Ai, ce que je Suis and Mon parler de Guinée.






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