African francophone writing : a critical introduction

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Author:

Ibnlfassi, Laïla.

ISBN:

9781859730096

9781859730140

Publication Information:

Oxford ; Washington, D.C. : Berg, 1996.

Physical Description:

xi, 215 p. ; 22 cm.

Series:

Berg French studies,

Series Title:

Berg French studies, 1354-3636.

Contents:

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.

Subject Term:

North African literature (French) -- History and criticism.

African literature (French) -- History and criticism.

Added Author:

Ibnlfassi, Laïla.

Hitchcott, Nicki.

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Summary

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.]