Black Paris: The African Writers Landscape; Author: Jules-Rosette, Bennetta; Introduction: Njami, Simon; Paperback

Author: Jules-Rosette, Bennetta; Introduction: Njami, Simon
Paperback
Published: August 2000
University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252069358

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 negritude movement and the founding of the Presence 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 Pan-Africanism and the revolutionary writing of the 1960s and 1970s. She also discusses the new generation of Africa