African Francophone Writing: A Critical Introduction: v. 16 (Berg French Studies Series) - Hardcover

Nicki Hitchcott & Laa Ibnlfassi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1859730094 ISBN 13: 9781859730096

Publisher: Berg Publishers, 1996

Synopsis

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: Chraïbi, Memmi and Boudjedra in the Maghreb; Sembène, Kourouma and Adiaffi in sub-Saharan Africa; Begag and Cherif from the 'Beur' community; and women writers such as Debèche, Fall and Bâ.]

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About the Author

Nicki Hitchcott is based in the School of Modern Languages at the University of St Andrews.

Edition details

• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1859730094
• ISBN 13: 9781859730096
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 215
• Editor: Nicki Hitchcott & Laa Ibnlfassi