Francophone African Literature

Catalog description

This course provides an overview of contemporary French-speaking African literature. During the 1950s, it emerged as a major genre for expressing the identity and emancipation concerns of the African continent and configured a space of discourse. Since the 'era of the African novel' post independence, the genre has evolved both aesthetically and thematically. Recent decades have seen the emergence of a postcolonial literature of great vitality, and creativity. The worldwide recognition of African literary production, particularly in French, is well established. What does this postcolonial African literature have to say? How does it fit into the current renewal of imaginary worlds?