Out of French-speaking Africa, from Togo, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire,
Cameroon, Guinea, Congo, Rwanda, Djibouti, and Madagascar, comes
the polyphony of new voices aired in this volume. The collection
brings together fourteen important contemporary authors with roots
in sub-Saharan French Africa and Madagascar, a new generation now
living in France or the United States, and introduces their
remarkable work to readers of English. These writers' stories,
unlike earlier African literature, seldom resemble traditional folk
tales. Instead they are concerned with the postindependence world
and reveal in their rich and complex depths the influence of modern
European and American short-story traditions as well as the
enduring reach of African myths and legends.
This gathering of gifted writers tenders modern versions of
myths; nostalgia for childhood in Africa; relations between the
sexes in contemporary Africa; continuing political problems; and
the life of the African diaspora in France--all related in new and
familiar ways, in innovative and traditional forms. Their work,
most of it little known outside France and their native African
countries, revises our understanding of the lingering effects of
colonization even as it celebrates the complexity, exuberance, and
tenacity of African culture.
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