Ruth Bush (School of Modern Languages, University of Bristol (United Kingdom))
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 that defined and legitimated notions of language, authorship and literary value during the decolonizing vingt glorieuses. Revealing known...
The history of post-war writing in French has tended to separate African literature from French metropolitan literary production. The same separation ...
