African Francophone Writing presents a comprehensive overview of African writing in the Francophone literary world. It explores the work of important classic and contemporary African writers from the 1950s to the present who, until recently, have received little critical attention. The contributors view their subjects from a diverse range of critical perspectives -- historical, thematic, psychoanalytic, feminist and post-colonial -- to provide a variety of theoretically sophisticated analyses of Francophone writing. A comprehensive introduction and an extensive chronological table are included. African Francophone literature is rapidly becoming a major discipline in universities in Britain and North America. This book will provide much needed critical material for students at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. [Well-known authors studied in this book include: Chraibi, Memmi and Boudjedra in the Maghreb; Sembene, Kourouma and Adiaffi in sub-Saharan Africa; Begag and Cherif from the 'Beur' community; and women writers such as Debeche, Fall and Ba.]
ISBN: | 9781859730140 |
Publication date: | 1st March 1996 |
Author: | Nicki Hitchcott |
Publisher: | Berg Publishers an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 215 pages |
Series: | Berg French Studies Series |
Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Ethnic studies |