Short stories conclude with translator's name. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Confessions of a sapeur / Alain Mabanckou. Essays: Afropeanism and francophone Sub-Saharan African writing / Dominic Thomas. The transatlantic poetics of Fatou Diome / Kathryn M. Lachman. Corps sans titre : "fleshiness" and Afropean identity in Bessora's 53 cm / John Nimis. Already here : Sami Tchak's Afropean generation / Allison Van Deventer. Paris polar : Afropean noir in the City of Light / Dawn Fulton. Mapping Afropea : the translation of Black Paris in the fiction of Alain Mabanckou / John Patrick Walsh. Relighting stars and bazaars of voices : exchange and dialogue in Leonora Miano's Tels des astres etients and Alain Mabanckou's Black bazar / Kathryn Kleppinger. Sex and the Afropean city : Leonora Miano's Blues pour Elise / Nicki Hitchcott. Towards an Afropean cosmopolitanism : hospitality, friendship and the African immigrant / Srilata Ravi. Afropean masculinities as bricolage / Ayo A. Coly -- Short stories: The old man and the boat / Fatou Diome. The rain-maker affair / Leonora Miano. The squirrels of Wannsee / Abdourahman A. Waheri. Francasterix / Wilfried N'Sonde. At the borders of my skin / Sami Tchak. Confessions of a sapeur / Alain Mabanckou.
Series:
Francophone postcolonial studies ; new ser., v. 5.
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