Charles Sugnet

• Specialties
• Publications
• Awards
• Courses

Specialties

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Specialties

• creative nonfiction writing
• fiction and film of the African diaspora
• postcolonial literature
• the contemporary novel
• multi-cultural instruction in the high schools

Publications

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Publications

• The Imagination on Trial: A Study of the Working Methods of Eleven Contemporary British and American Novelists. Alan Burns, Allison & Busby, Sugnet, Charles, 1981.
• Things Fall Apart: Problems of Constructing an Alternative Ethnography. Eagle on Iroko: Selected Papers from the Chinua Achebe International Symposium 1990, Heinnemann Educational Books, Sugnet, Charles, 1996.
• "African Film." : Greenwood Press, Sugnet, Charles, Encyclopedia of World Popular Culture: Sub-Saharan Africa, 2007.
• “Real-time Africa: A traveling exhibit gives the lie to “˜primitive’ Africa.“ : Sugnet, Charles, Review of largest ever exhibition of African contemporary art at Hayward in London, Pompidou in France, etc. Utne Reader, March/April 2006.
• “Wolof Orality, Senghorian Literacy, and the Status of Cinema in Djibril Diop Mambety’s La Petite Vendeuse de Soleil: Sugnet, Charles, The French Review, 79.6 , 2006.
• "Francois Xavier-Verschave: A French Noam Chomsky?": Sugnet, Charles, West Africa Research Association Newsletter, 2003.
• Against Normalization:Writing Radical Democracy in South Africa: Sugnet, Charles, review of; Africa Today, 50.2, 2003.
• “Nuruddin Farah’s Maps: Deterritorialization and “˜the Postmodern.’“ : Africa World Press, Sugnet, Charles, World Literature Today; Reprinted in Emerging Perspectives on Nuruddin Farah. , 1998; 2002.
• Subject to Colonialism: African Self-Fashioning and the Colonial Library: Sugnet, Charles, Africa Today, 49.1, 2002.
• “Dakar Noir.“ [Translation from Les tambours de la memoire by Senegalese novelist Boubacar Boris Diop]: Sugnet, Charles, Transition, 87, 2001.

Awards

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Awards

• College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Minnesota, 1998
• Horace T. Morse-University Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education, 1995
• Loft Creative Nonfiction Writing Award, 1988

Courses

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Courses

• EngL 1595 - Introduction to "Third World" Literature in English
• EngL 3242H - Honors Seminar: Twentieth-Century Rewritings of Shakespeare
• EngL 5920 - Literature of Zimbabwe and South Africa
• EngL 5950 - Saro-Wiwa
• EngW 5210 - Topics in Advanced Literary Nonfiction
• Workshop on Creative Nonfiction Writing
• Teachers Institute Seminar: International Studies in Literature and Film
• Survey of African Film
• West Africa: Fiction, Film, and Theory