Francophone Afropean literatures /
edited by Nicki Hitchcott and Dominic Thomas.
- 1 online resource (239 pages)
- Francophone postcolonial studies ; new series, volume 5 .
- Francophone postcolonial studies ; new ser., v.5. .
Short stories conclude with translator's name.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Francophone Afropeans / Essays: Afropeanism and francophone Sub-Saharan African writing / The transatlantic poetics of Fatou Diome / Corps sans titre : "fleshiness" and Afropean identity in Bessora's 53 cm / Already here : Sami Tchak's Afropean generation / Paris polar : Afropean noir in the City of Light / Mapping Afropea : the translation of Black Paris in the fiction of Alain Mabanckou / Relighting stars and bazaars of voices : exchange and dialogue in Leonora Miano's Tels des astres etients and Alain Mabanckou's Black bazar / Sex and the Afropean city : Leonora Miano's Blues pour Elise / Towards an Afropean cosmopolitanism : hospitality, friendship and the African immigrant / Afropean masculinities as bricolage / Short stories: The old man and the boat / The rain-maker affair / The squirrels of Wannsee / Francasterix / At the borders of my skin / Confessions of a sapeur / Nicki Hitchcott and Dominic Thomas -- Dominic Thomas -- Kathryn M. Lachman. John Nimis -- Allison Van Deventer -- Dawn Fulton -- John Patrick Walsh -- Kathryn Kleppinger -- Nicki Hitchcott -- Srilata Ravi -- Ayo A. Coly -- Fatou Diome -- Leonora Miano -- Abdourahman A. Waheri -- Wilfried N'Sonde -- Sami Tchak -- Alain Mabanckou. Introduction:
9781781385906 (e-book)
African literature (French)--History and criticism.