The relationship between literature & the state is examined in this discussion of Francophone African literature. Dominic Thomas considers the case of the Congo
What characterizes the relationship between literature and the state? Should literature serve the needs of the state by constructing national consciousness, esp
"[W]ithout a doubt one of the most important studies so far completed on literature in French grounded in the experiences of migrants of sub-Saharan African ori
An “excellent [and] incisive” look at identity, immigration, and culture in postcolonial France (Journal of West African History). This stimulating and insi