9781781380345 (hbk.)

1781380341 (hbk.)

9781781385906 (e-book)

Short stories conclude with translator's name.

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Francophone postcolonial studies ; new series, volume 5

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.

African literature (French) > History and criticism.

Europe > In literature.

Africa > Civilization > Western influences.

Europe > Civilization > African influences.