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The Chadian writer Nimrod-philosopher, poet, novelist, and essayist-is one of the most dynamic and vital voices in contemporary African literature and thought. Yet little of Nimrod's writing has been translated into English until now. Introductory material by Frieda Ekotto provides context for Nimrod's work and demonstrates the urgency of making it available beyond Francophone Africa to a broader global audience. At the heart of this volume are Nimrod's essays on LeI{CC}{80}{acute}{84}{97}{acute}{84}{97}{acute}{99}{AF}opold SeI{CC}{80}{acute}{84}{97}{acute}{84}{97}{acute}{99}{AF}dar Senghor, a key figure in the literary and aesthetic NeI{CC}{80}{acute}{84}{97}{acute}{84}{97}{acute}{99}{AF}gritude movement of the 1930s and president of Senegal from 1945 through 1980. Widely dismissed in recent decades as problematically essentialist, Senghorian Negritude articulated notions of "blackness" as a way of transcending deep divisions across a Black Diaspora under French colonial rule. Nimrod offers a nuanced reading of Senghor, drawing out the full complexities of Senghor's philosophy and reevaluating how race and colonialism function in a French-speaking space. Also included in this volume are Nimrod's essays on literature from the 2008 collection, The New French Matter (La nouvelle chose française). Representing his prose fiction is his 2010 work, Rivers' Gold (L'or des rivières). Also featured are some of Nimrod's best-loved poems, in both English translation and the original French. The works selected and translated for this volume showcase Nimrod's versatility, his intellectual liveliness, and his exploration of questions of aesthetics in African literature, philosophy, and linguistics. Nimrod: Selected Writings marks a significant contribution toward engaging a broader audience with one of the vital voices of our time. This book will be essential reading for Anglophone students and scholars of African philosophy, literature, poetry, and critical theory, and will offer a welcome introduction to Nimrod for general readers of contemporary international writing.

Chadian literature (French) --- African literature (French) --- History and criticism.

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Tables des matières : Eburne, Jonathan P., Braddock, Jeremy. : Introduction: Paris, capital of the black Atlantic I. Afro-modernism Fisher, Rebecka Rutledge. : Cultural artifacts and the narrative of history: W. E. B. Du Bois and the exhibiting of culture at the 1900 Paris Exposition universelle. - Whalan, Mark. : "The only real white democracy" and the language of liberation: The Great War, France, and African American culture in the 1920s. - Wilks, Jennifer : Writing home: comparative Black modernism and form in Jean Toomer and Aimé Césaire. - Francis, Terri : Embodied fictions, melancholy migrations : Josephine Baker's Cinematic Celebrity. II. Postwar Paris and the politics of literature Bell, Kevin : Assuming the position: fugitivity and futurity in the work of Chester Himes. - Atteberry, Jeffrey : Entering the politics of the outside: Richard Wright's critique of marxism and existentialism. - Gibson, Richard : Richard Wright's "Island of hallucination" and the "Gibson Affair". III. From negritude to migritude Fabre, Michel : René, Louis, and Léopold: Senghorian negritude as a black humanism. - Caplan, Marc : Nos ancêtres, les Diallobés: Cheikh Hamidou Kane's Ambiguous adventure and the paradoxes of islamic negritude. - Adesanmi, Pius : Redefining Paris: Trans-modernity and Francophone African migritude fiction. - Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean : Afterword : europhilia, francophilia, negrophilia in the making of the modernism.

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Albert Memmi published the first anthology of francophone Maghrebian literature, he expressed his unhappy belief that francophone writing would quickly be eclipsed by Arabic. To the contrary, this volume demonstrates that the francophone writing of North Africa remains vibrant and prolific. Two distinct periods are evident in contemporary Maghrebian letters, producing the anticolonial works appearing prior to independence and the subsequent critiques of postcolonial society. This collection examines themes common to both periods: identity, conflicts between tradition and modernity, women's place in society, and the lives of North African immigrants living in France. Throughout, the uneasy and ambiguous relationship between the Maghrebian writer and the French language is evident, as is the ongoing political nature of North African literature.

North African literature (French) --- History and criticism.