Black Studies: French

African Literature in French: a History of Creative Writing in French from West and Equatorial Africa by Dorothy S. Blair This book provides both a historical survey and a critical analysis of the literature in French from West and Equatorial Africa. Professor Blair begins by discussing the social, educational and political influences which led to the formation of the Negritude movement and to a flowering of French-African creative writing.

Theatre and Drama in Francophone Africa by John Conteh-Morgan The traditional context of Francophone drama -- From oral performances to modern drama : on the growth and development of a genre -- Francophone drama : the thematic dimension

New Francophone African and Caribbean Theatres by John Conteh-Morgan; Dominic Thomas (As told to)

Francophone African Women Writers by Irène Assiba d'Almeida

Packaging Post/Coloniality: the Manufacture of Literary Identity in the Francophone World by RIchard Watts Watts breaks from convention and reads Francophone books by their covers, focusing on the package rather than the content. Watts examines the ways that the "paratext"--The covers, illustrations, promotional summaries, epigraphs, dedications, forewords, or prefaces that enclose a text - mediates creative works by writers from sub-Saharan Africa, the Maghreb, the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia.

Black Soundscapes White Stages: The Meaning of Francophone Sound in the Black Atlantic by Edwin C. Hill Hill explores the role of sound in understanding the African Diaspora on both sides of the Atlantic, from the City of Light to the islands of the French Antilles. From the writings of European travelers in the seventeenth century to short-wave radio transmissions in the early twentieth century, Edwin C. Hill Jr. uses music, folk song, film, and poetry to listen for the tragic cri nègre. Building a conceptualization of black Atlantic sound inspired by Frantz Fanon's pioneering work on colonial speech and desire, Hill contends that sound constitutes a terrain of contestation, both violent and pleasurable, where colonial and anti-colonial ideas about race and gender are critically imagined, inscribed, explored, and resisted.

The Negritude Poets: an Anthology of Translations from the French by Ellen Conroy Kennedy; Maya Angelou (Foreword by) The present volume, which is the fruit of over a decade's dedicated effort, gathers together, in English translation, twenty-seven poets, associated with that cultural and intellectual movement which since the close of World War II has come to be known as "negritude".

Negritude Women by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting The Negritude movement, which signaled the awakening of a pan-African consciousness among black French intellectuals, has been understood in terms of the contributions of its male founders. This masculine genealogy has completely overshadowed the central role played by French-speaking black women. Sharpley-Whiting offers a long-overdue corrective, revealing the contributions made by the women who were not merely integral to the success of the movement but often in its vanguard.

Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World by Gary Wilder Freedom Time reconsiders decolonization from the perspectives of Aimé Césaire (Martinique) and Léopold Sédar Senghor (Senegal) who, beginning in 1945, promoted self-determination without state sovereignty. As politicians, public intellectuals, and poets they struggled to transform imperial France into a democratic federation, with former colonies as autonomous members of a transcontinental polity.

The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy: Négritude, Vitalism, and Modernity by Donna V. Jones, '90 In the early twentieth century, the life philosophy of Henri Bergson summoned the élan vital, or vital force, as the source of creative evolution. Bergson also appealed to intuition, which focused on experience rather than discursive thought and scientific cognition. Particularly influential for the literary and political Négritude movement of the 1930s, which opposed French colonialism, Bergson's life philosophy formed an appealing alternative to Western modernity, decried as 'mechanical,' and set the stage for later developments in postcolonial theory and vitalist discourse.

The Negritude Movement by Reiland Rabaka The Negritude Movement explores Negritude as a “traveling theory” (à la Edward Said's concept) that consistently crisscrossed the Atlantic Ocean in the twentieth century: from Harlem to Haiti, Haiti to Paris, Paris to Martinique, Martinique to Senegal, and on and on ad infinitum. The Negritude Movement maps the movements of proto-Negritude concepts from Du Bois's discourse in The Souls of Black Folk through to post-Negritude concepts in Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth.

Modernism and Negritude: the Poetry and Poetics of Aimé Césaire by A. James Arnold

The Concept of Negritude in the Poetry of Léopold Sédar Senghor. by Sylvia Washington Bâ

The Changing Face of Afro-Caribbean Cultural Identity: Negrismo and Negritude by Mamadou Badiane This book looks primarily at Negrismo and Négritude, two literary movements that appeared in the Francophone and Hispanic Caribbean as well as in Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century. It draws on speeches and manifestos, and use cultural studies to contextualize ideas.This book examines the search for cultural identity through the poetry of Nicolas Guillén, Manuel del Cabral, and Palés Matos.

Black, French, and African: a Life of Léopold Sédar Senghor by Janet G. Vaillant Childhood -- The French -- Paris -- The Milieu of negritude -- Coming of age -- Spokesman -- The War years -- Brilliant apprentice -- Master politician -- Negritude and African socialism -- Toward independence -- President Senghor

Voices of Negritude in Modernist Print: Aesthetic Subjectivity, Diaspora, and the Lyric Regime by Carrie Noland Engaging primarily the works of Aimé Césaire and Léon-Gontran Damas, Noland shows how the demands of print culture alter the personal voice of each author, transforming an empirical subjectivity into a hybrid, textual entity that she names, after Theodor Adorno, an aesthetic subjectivity.

Rethinking Négritude Through Léon-Gontran Damas by F. Bart Miller This book analyses four cases in which Damasian Négritude shifted through generic experimentation: Pigments (1937), Retour de Guyane (1938), Veillées noires (1943) and Black-Label (1956).

Negritude: Legacy and Present Relevance by Isabelle Constant; Kahiudi C. Mabana

Choreographies of African Identities: Négritude, Dance, and the National Ballet of Senegal by Francesca Castaldi She then examines the work of the National Ballet in relation to Léopold Sédar Senghor's Négritude ideology and cultural politics. Finally, the author addresses the circulation of dances in the streets, discotheques, and courtyards of Dakar, drawing attention to women dancers' occupation of the urban landscape.

Race Culture and Identity: Francophone West African and Caribbean Literature and Theory from Négritude to Créolité by Shireen Lewis Lewis gives a comprehensive analysis of the literary and theoretical discourse on race, culture, and identity by Francophone and Caribbean writers beginning in the early part of the twentieth century and continuing into the dawn of the new millennium.

Creole Echoes: the Francophone Poetry of Nineteenth-Century Louisiana by Norman R. Shapiro (Translator); M. Lynn Weiss (Introduction by); Werner Sollors (Foreword by) Creole Echoes contains more than a hundred of these poems by more than thirty different poets, presented in their original French alongside English translations by Norman R. Shapiro.

The Negritude Poets: an Anthology of Translations from the French by Ellen Conroy Kennedy; Maya Angelou (Foreword by) The present volume, which is the fruit of over a decade's dedicated effort, gathers together, in English translation, twenty-seven poets, associated with that cultural and intellectual movement which since the close of World War II has come to be known as "negritude".

Un Papillon dans la Cité by Gisèle Pineau

Poétique de la Relation by Édouard Glissant

Bouts Debois de Dieux: Banty Mam Yall by Ousmane Sembene

Poèmes by Léopold Sédar Senghor

Agatha Moudio's Son by Francis Bebey

Coups de Pilon: Poèmes by David Diop

Cahier d'un Retour au Pays Natal by Aimé Césaire

Masters of the Dew by Jacques Roumain; Mercer Cook (Translator); Langston Hughes (Translator) This novel explores the traditional rural life and people of Haiti, dominated by the natural world. This is a deeply powerful story of the harsh existence of peasant farmers struggling in a world both beautiful and unforgiving.

La Rue Cases-Nègres: Roman by Joseph Zobel

L'Aventure Ambigüe by Cheikh Hamidou Kane

En Attendant le Vote des Betes Sauvages by Ahmadou Kourouma

Seven Plays of Koffi Kwahulé: In and Out of Africa by Judith G. Miller; Chantal Bilodeau (Translator)

Mount Pleasant: A Novel by Patrice Nganang; Amy Baram Reid (Translator) A sweeping tale of modern Cameroon exploring issues of colonialism, racial passing, and the power of the stories that we tell.

Bound to Violence by Yambo Ouologuem; translated by Ralph Manheim

La Saison de L'Ombre by Léonora Miano

Deny et Dénistar: Suivi de Un 31 Décembre by Salimata Togora

Moi, Tituba, Sorcière by Maryse Condé

Le Pagne Noir, Contes Africains by Bernard B. Dadié

Peau Noire, Masques Blancs by Frantz Fanon Fanon, born in Martinique and educated in France, is generally regarded as the leading anti-colonial thinker of the 20th century. His first book is an analysis of the impact of colonial subjugation on the black psyche. It is a very personal account of Fanon's experience being black: as a man, an intellectual, and a party to a French education.

Une Vie de Boy by Ferdinand Oyono

Une si Longe Lettre by Mariama Bâ

King Lazarus: a Novel by Mongo Beti

Murambi, the Book of Bones by Boubacar Boris Diop; Fiona MC Laughlin (Translator) In April of 1994, nearly a million Rwandans were killed in what would prove to be one of the swiftest, most terrifying killing sprees of the 20th century. In Murambi, The Book of Bones, Boubacar Boris Diop comes face to face with the chilling horror and overwhelming sadness of the tragedy.

Le Nègre et l'Amiral: Roman by Raphaël Confiant

All Men are Mad by Philippe Thoby-Marcelin; Pierre Marcelin

Une Enfance Créole by Patrick Chamoiseau

Caught in the Storm by Seydou Badian; Marie-Therese Noiset (Translator) A 1954 novel on the Westernization of Africa. What should one accept, what should one reject? The protagonists include a woman resisting an arranged marriage and a soldier who served in the French army in Europe.

African Psycho: Roman by Alain Mabanckou Gregoire Nakobomayo, a petty criminal, has decided to kill his girlfriend Germaine. He's planned the crime for some time, but still, the act of murder requires a bit of psychological and logistical preparation. Luckily, he has a mentor to call on, the far more accomplished serial killer Angoualima.

Les Malheurs de Tchakô [and] Pièce en Cinq Tableaux by Zègoua Gbessi Nokan

Three Suitors: One Husband; [and] Until Further Notice by Guillaume Oyono-Mbia,

Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga; Melanie Mauthner (Translator) Mukasonga immerses us in a school for young girls, called "Notre-Dame du Nil." The girls are sent to this high school perched on the ridge of the Nile in order to become the feminine elite of the country and to escape the dangers of the outside world. The book is a prelude to the Rwandan genocide and unfolds behind the closed doors of the school, in the interminable rainy season.

Eloge de la Créolité by Jean Bernabé

Think of Lampedusa by Josué Guébo; Todd Fredson (Translator) A collection of serial poems, Think of Lampedusa addresses the 2013 shipwreck that killed 366 Africans attempting to migrate secretly to Lampedusa, an Italian island in the Mediterranean Sea. The crossing from North Africa to this island and other Mediterranean way stations has become the most dangerous migrant route in the world. Interested in what is producing such epic displacement, Josué Guébo's poems combine elements of history and mythology.