Ecrivains noirs d'Afrique et des Antilles

The Author: Ronald Gérard Giguère received his Ph.D. in French from the University of Connecticut. He has been a member of the Modern Languages Department at Connecticut College, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and Phillips Academy. He has also taught at the University of Rouen in France. He is currently working as a bilingual editor for Merriam-Webster Publishing, Inc. Dr. Giguère has published extensively in French and American journals, and has written a book on Yves Bonnefoy, Le Concept de la réalité dans la poésie d'Yves Bonnefoy.

"Voici une excellente introduction à la littérature noire par la voie royale de ses meilleurs écrivains. Il faut féliciter Dr. Giguère pour sa sélection: il a retenu les auteurs les plus représentatifs. Ses commentaires aideront le lecteur extra africain à pénétrer dans un univers complexe... Il faut le remercier aussi de nous présenter l'extraordinaire autobiographie de Wole Soyinka: je la préfère à toute autre pour l'humour, l'émotion et la qualité du style." (Lilyan Kesteloot, Professeur de littérature africaine, Université de Dakar, Sénégal)
"Dr. Giguère has made an excellent choice from among the foremost black writers of this century: Mongo Béti, Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Wole Soyinka, to name but a few... The concise analyses along with the pedagogical apparatus that accompany each selection will prove an invaluable tool for the teaching of African and Caribbean literature and culture. I recommend highly that 'Ecrivains noirs' be incorporated as a text in the general curriculum of French and Francophone studies." (Maurice Cagnon, French and Francophone Literatures, Montclair State College)
" Ecrivains noirs is an anthology that would be most useful for instructors who, like me, have no knowledge of black writers in French and would like to include this type of literature in introductory and intermediate courses. It proposes to the instructor and students tools which would help in the understanding of such a literature (choice of text, introductions, questions). I look forward to using Ecrivains noirs in some of my courses." (N. K. Murstein, Professor of French, Connecticut College)
"This much needed anthology illustrates the global nature of the study of French. No longer can we say that French is solely a European language; as these selections make clear, it is part of contemporary African and West Indian cultures. The readings introduce the student to writers who were among the first to use European languages to express non-Western cultural