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Francophone Afropean literatures

Title
Francophone Afropean literatures [electronic resource] / edited by Nicki Hitchcott and Dominic Thomas.
Publication
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2014.

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Additional Authors
  • Hitchcott, Nicki.
  • Thomas, Dominic Richard David.
Description
1 online resource (vi, 232 p.)
Series Statement
Francophone postcolonial studies ; new ser., v. 5
Uniform Title
  • Francophone Afropean literatures (Online)
  • Francophone postcolonial studies ; new ser., v.5.
Subject
  • African literature (French) > History and criticism
  • Europe > In literature
  • Africa > Civilization > Western influences
  • Europe > Civilization > African influences
Note
  • Short stories conclude with translator's name.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
Introduction: Francophone Afropeans / Nicki Hitchcott and Dominic Thomas -- Essays: Afropeanism and francophone Sub-Saharan African writing / Dominic Thomas. The transatlantic poetics of Fatou Diome / Kathryn M. Lachman. Corps sans titre : "fleshiness" and Afropean identity in Bessora's 53 cm / John Nimis. Already here : Sami Tchak's Afropean generation / Allison Van Deventer. Paris polar : Afropean noir in the City of Light / Dawn Fulton. Mapping Afropea : the translation of Black Paris in the fiction of Alain Mabanckou / John Patrick Walsh. Relighting stars and bazaars of voices : exchange and dialogue in Leonora Miano's Tels des astres etients and Alain Mabanckou's Black bazar / Kathryn Kleppinger. Sex and the Afropean city : Leonora Miano's Blues pour Elise / Nicki Hitchcott. Towards an Afropean cosmopolitanism : hospitality, friendship and the African immigrant / Srilata Ravi. Afropean masculinities as bricolage / Ayo A. Coly -- Short stories: The old man and the boat / Fatou Diome. The rain-maker affair / Leonora Miano. The squirrels of Wannsee / Abdourahman A. Waheri. Francasterix / Wilfried N'Sonde. At the borders of my skin / Sami Tchak. Confessions of a sapeur / Alain Mabanckou.
LCCN
2013497689
OCLC
ssj0001371238
Title
Francophone Afropean literatures [electronic resource] / edited by Nicki Hitchcott and Dominic Thomas.
Imprint
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2014.
Series
Francophone postcolonial studies ; new ser., v. 5
Francophone postcolonial studies ; new ser., v.5.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Hitchcott, Nicki.
Thomas, Dominic Richard David.
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