Owusu, Portia
individual record
Assistant Professor
Positions:
- Assistant Professor, English, College of Arts and Sciences
selected publications
Academic Articles2
- Owusu, P. (2023). Of Life and Death: African Cultural Worldviews and Black American Survival in Toni Morrisons Song of Solomon and Amiri Barakas Slave Ship. Comparative Literature Studies. 60(1), 73-94.
- 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.
Books1
- Owusu, P. (2019). Spectres from the Past, Slavery and the Politics of History in West African and African-American Literature. Taylor & Francis.
Chapters10
- 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 119-127.
Reviews1
- Owusu, P. (2015). Converging Identities: Blackness in the Modern African Diaspora. African Studies Quarterly: the Online Journal for African Studies. 15(2), 107-108.
recent teaching activities
- AFST204 Intro To African Am Lit Instructor
- AFST205 Intro To Africana Lit Instructor
- AFST329 African-am Lit Pre 1930 Instructor
- AFST339 African-am Lit Post-1930 Instructor
- AFST393 Africana Lit & Culture Instructor
Email
powusu@tamu.edu
First Name
Portia
Last Name
Owusu
