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11%OFFBennetta Jules-Rosette - Black Paris: THE AFRICAN WRITERS´ LANDSCAPE - 9780252069352 - V9780252069352
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Black Paris: THE AFRICAN WRITERS´ LANDSCAPE

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Description for Black Paris: THE AFRICAN WRITERS´ LANDSCAPE Paperback. Documents the struggles and successes of three generations of African writers as they strive to establish their artistic, literary, and cultural identities in France. This work explores African writing and identity in France from the early negritude movement and the founding of the Presence Africaine publishing house in 1947 to the mid-1990s. Num Pages: 376 pages, 21 photographs, 7 line drawings. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 29. Weight in Grams: 538.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252069352
SKU
V9780252069352
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Reviews for Black Paris: THE AFRICAN WRITERS´ LANDSCAPE
"Jules-Rosette paints an exotic, gritty tableau spanning decades and continents. Here African writers elucidate their worlds. The Parisian Negritude movement is juxtaposed against revolutionary writing, and often the reservations of African American literary giants, including James Baldwin and Richard Wright. Her study of African writers in Paris displays a confident grasp of their diverse and complex ideas, while effectively capturing ... Read more

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