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0803203969

128051051X

6610510512

9780803203969

9781280510519

9786610510511

0803227582

0803278101

9780803227583

9780803278103

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From Africa :

[Book]

new francophone stories /

edited by Adele King.

Lincoln :

University of Nebraska Press,

©2004.

1 online resource (xvii, 150 pages)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-139).

Out of French-speaking Africa, from Togo, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Guinea, Congo, Rwanda, Djibouti, and Madagascar, comes the polyphony of new voices aired in this volume. The collection brings together fourteen important contemporary authors with roots in sub-Saharan French Africa and Madagascar, a new generation now living in France or the United States, and introduces their remarkable work to readers of English. These writers' stories, unlike earlier African literature, seldom resemble traditional folk tales. Instead they are concerned with the postindependence world and reveal in their rich and complex depths the influence of modern European and American short-story traditions as well as the enduring reach of African myths and legends. This gathering of gifted writers tenders modern versions of myths; nostalgia for childhood in Africa; relations between the sexes in contemporary Africa; continuing political problems; and the life of the African diaspora in France-all related in new and familiar ways, in innovative and traditional forms. Their work, most of it little known outside France and their native African countries, revises our understanding of the lingering effects of colonization even as it celebrates the complexity, exuberance, and tenacity of African culture.

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

From Africa.

0803278101

Short stories, African (French), Translations into English.

FICTION-- General.

Kurzgeschichte

Short stories, African (French)

Englisch.

Frankophones Afrika

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King, Adele.

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