African Francophone Writing - A Critical Introduction

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.]

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• Authors: Nicki Hitchcott, Laa Ibnlfassi, Laila Ibnlfassi, Laila Ibnlfassl
• Assisted by: Nicki Hitchcott (Editor), Hitchcott Nicki (Editor), Laa Ibnlfassi (Editor), Laila Ibnlfassi (Editor), Ibnlfassi Laila (Editor), Laila Ibnlfassl (Editor)
• Publisher: Berg Publishers Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.1996
• EAN: 9781859730140
• ISBN: 978-1-85973-014-0
• No. of pages: 215
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 216 mm x 11 mm
• Series: French Studies (Paperback); Berg French Studies Series; Berg French Studies; French Studies (Paperback)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; French, Ethnic Studies, Africa, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Black & Asian Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies