Black Paris: THE AFRICAN WRITERS' LANDSCAPE

by Bennetta Jules-Rosette

Overview

Black Paris documents the struggles and successes of three generations of African writers as they strive to establish their artistic, literary, and cultural identities in France. Based on long-term ethnographic, archival, and historical research, the work is enriched by interviews with many writers of the new generation.
 
Bennetta Jules-Rosette explores African writing and identity in France from the early négritude movement and the founding of the Présence Africaine publishing house in 1947 to the mid-1990s. Examining the relationship between African writing and French anthropology as well as the emergence of new styles and discourses, Jules-Rosette covers French Pan-Africanism and the revolutionary writing of the 1960s and 1970s. She also discusses the new generation of African writers who appeared in Paris during the 1980s and 1990s.
 
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780252069352
Publisher:	University of Illinois Press
Publication date:	06/14/2000
Pages:	376
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

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Terri Francis

An aerial view of Francophone African writing over a seventy-year period…Captures the details of the writers' everyday lives, which can be crucial and yet are often neglected.