The African Writers' Landscape
Bennetta Jules-Rosette| Pub Date: | 2000 |
| Pages: | 376 pages |
| Illustrations: | 21 Photographs, 7 Line Drawings |
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.
Subjects:
Cultural Studies / Literature, European / Sociology / History, Intellectual / African Studies / Anthropology / Black Studies