The institutional framework of la Francophonie / Anne Judge -- Writers of Maghrebian immigrant origin in France : French, francophone, Maghrebian or Beur? / Alec G. Hargreaves -- Points of view : looking at the other in Michel Tournier's La Goutte d'or and Rachid Boudjedra's Topographie idéale pour une agression caractérisée / Carys Owen -- Chraïbi's Le Passé simple and a theory of doubles / Laïla Ibnlfassi -- Unmasking women : the female persona in Algerian fiction / Farida Abu-Haidar -- Commuting the s̀entences' of Malek Haddad / Sara Poole -- D̀on't look back' : Albert Memmi's La Statue de sel / Seán Hand -- To be a poet in Morocco / Jacqueline Kaye -- Linguistic and cultural heterogeneity and the novel in francophone Africa / Madeleine Borgomano -- C̀onfidently feminine'? Sexual role-play in the novels of Mariama Bâ / Nicki Hitchcott -- Tradition and continuity : the quest for synthesis in Francis Bebey's Le Fils d'Agatha Moudio / Abimne D. Njinjoh -- Marxist intertext, Islamic reinscription? Some common themes in the novels of Sembène Ousmane and Aminata Sow Fall / Peter Hawkins -- Amadou Hampaté Bâ's Amkullel : a Malian memoir and its contexts / Andrew Manley.