Publishing Africa in French: Literary Institutions and Decolonization 1945-1967

by Ruth Bush

The history of post-war writing in French has tended to separate African literature from French metropolitan literary production. The same separation resonates in today's global French literary marketplace, still dominated by Parisian publishing houses and metropolitan literary kudos. This study historicises the aesthetic and socio-economic implications of that evident asymmetry. Archival research combines with literary analysis to explore the mediations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800349106
• ISBN13: 9781800349100
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 304 Pages