Black Paris: The African Writers' Landscape

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Author: Bennetta Jules-Rosette

ISBN-10: 0252069358

ISBN-13: 9780252069352

Category: African Literature

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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.

ForewordPrefaceIntroduction: Generations of African Writers in Paris11An Uneasy Collaboration: The Dialogue between French Anthropology and Black Paris19Interview with Jacques Rabemananjara and Christiane Yande Diop432Antithetical Africa: The Conferences and Festivals of Presence Africaine, 1956-7349Interview with Paulin Joachim793Revolutionary Writing: Challenges to Negritude87Interview with Paul Dakeyo1074Green Beans and Books: Cote d'lvoire and the Parisian Literary Landscape113Interview with Bernard Binlin Dadie1405The African Writers' Parisian Landscape: A Social and Literary Panorama1476Parisianism: The African Writers' Reality179Interview with Simon Njami196Interview with Calixthe Beyala2017Universalism: The African Writers' Dream2068Identity Discourses: From Negritude to the New Universalism240Conclusion: Particularism and Universalism in African Writing263App. 1Chronology of Key Events281App. 2Immigration Statistics284Notes289References309Index329