Union College Department of Modern Languages

World Literature

Open your mind to different perspectives through the literature of francophone and French authors.

Links

Mots Pluriels: Revue internationale en ligne de Lettres et de Sciences humaines
http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/

Emory University Postcolonial Studies
http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Contents.html#theorist

ClicNet: Recherches littéraires
http://clicnet.swarthmore.edu/litterature/sujets/recherche.html

Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies
http://152.1.96.5/jouvert/

Literary Masterpieces

Novels:

Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. New York: Anchor 1959.

Assia Djebar. L'Amour, la fantasia. Paris: Jean Claude Lattes, 1985.

Camara, Laye. L'Enfant noir. 1953. Paris: Plon, 1987.

Kane, Hamidou. L'Aventure ambigüe. Paris: René Juillard, 1961.

Kourouma, Ahmadou. Les Soleils des indépendances. Paris: Seuil, 1979.

Maran, Rene. Batouala. Paris: Albin Michel, 1921. Trans. Adele Szold-Seltzer. New York: Selzer, 1922.

Semebene, Ousmane. Les Bouts de bois de dieu. 1960. Gods Bits of Wood. Trans. Francis Price. Hanover and Oxford: Heinmann, 1968.

Tales:

Diop, Birago. Tales of Amadou Koumba. Trans. Dorothy Blair. London: Oxford University Press, 1966.

Mama, Raouf. Why Goats Smell Bad. Connecticut, North Haven: Shoe String Press, 1998.

Liking, Werewere. Liboy Li nkundung: conte initiatique. Paris: editions Saint-Paul, 1980.

Germaine Brée, Georges Markow-Tokevy. Contes et Nouvelles. Rinehart Press, 1989.

Essai, Anthologie, Histoire:

Bhabha, Homi. The Location of Culture. London and New York: Routledge,1994. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Césaire Aimé. Discours sur le colonialisme. 1939. Paris: Présence Africaine, 1955.

Derrida, Jacques. La Politique de l'Amitié. Politics of Friendship. Trans. George Collins. Editions Galilé, 1994.

Diop, Cheikh Anta. L'Afrique noire précoloniale. Paris: Présence Africaine, 1960. (Precolonial Black Africa, Lawrence Hill, 1987.)

Foucault, M. What is an author? Trans. by Joseph Harari, in David Lodge (ed.) Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader. London and New York: Longman, 1979.

Gates, Henry Louis. "Race", Writing and Difference. Chicago and London: University of Chicago, 1986.

Glissant, Edouard. Poetique de le Relation.

Hale, Thomas. Scribe, Griot, & Novelist. University of Florida Press, 1990.

Lacan, Jacques. The Language of the Self: The Function of Language in Psychoanalysis. Trans. with notes and commentary, Anthony Wilden. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1968.

Levis-Strauss, Claude. The Savage Mind. 1962. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966.

LuKas, Georg. History and Class Consciousness. 1923. Trans. Rodney Livingstone. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1967.

Miller, Christopher. Theories of Africans: Francophone Literature and Anthropology in Africa. Chicago: University of chicago Press, 1990.

Tempels, Placide. La Philosophie bantoue. Trans. A. Rubbens. Paris: Présence Africaine, 1949.

Chinweizu, Onwuchekwa Jemie, Ihechukwu Madubulke. Toward the Decolonization of African Literature. Washington D.C.: Howard University Press, 1983.

Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Mask. Trans. Charles Markmann. New York: Grove, 1967.

Genette, Gérard. Narrative Discourse. Trans. Jane Lewin. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1980.

Kesteloot, Lilyan. Black Writers in French. 1963. Trans. Ellen Konray Kennedy. Philapdelphia: Temple University Press, 1974.

Khatibi, Abdelkebir. Maghreb pluriel. Paris: Denoël, 1983.

Kristeva, Julia. Revolution in Poetic Language. Trans. Margaret Waller. New York: Colombia University Press, 1984.

Ngugi, Wa Thiong'o. De-Colonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature. London: James Currey, 1981.

Obioma Nnaemeka. The Politics of (M)Othering: Womanhood, Identity, and Resistance in African Literature. London and New York: Routledge, 1997.

Senghor, Léopold Sedar. Liberté 1: Négritude et humanisme. Paris: Seuil, 1967.

Spivak, G. In Other Worlds: Essays in Cutural Politics. New York: Methuen. 1987.

Soyinka, Wole. Myth, Literature, and the African World. 1976. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,1992.

Ashcroft, B., Griffiths, G., and Tiffin, H. The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures. London: Routledge, 1995.

Young, R.J.C. Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race. London: Routledge, 1995.

Epics:

Alta, Jablow. Gassire's Lute: a West-African Epic. Illinois: Waveland Press, 1971.

Barry, Boubacar. Le royaume du Waalo. Paris: Karthala, 1985.

Dieng, Bassirou. L'épopée du Kajoor. Dakar and Paris: Centre Africain d'Animation et d'Echanges Culturels/Khoudia, 1993.

Equilbecq, François-Victor. La légende de Samba Guéladio Diégui, Prince Fouta. Dakar: NEA, 1974..

Eno-Belinga, Samuel Martin. L'épopée camerounaise, mvet. Yaoundé: n.p., 1978.

John Johnson, Hale Thomas,&Stephen Belcher.Oral Epics From Africa.Indiana University Press, 1997.

Guignard, Micheline and Abderrahman Ayoub. Histoire des Beni Hilal et de ce qui leur advint dans leur marche vers l'ouest. Paris: Armand Colin, 1983.

Laya, Diouldé. Texts Songhay-Zarma. Niamey: Centre d'Etudes Linguistiques et Historiques par Tradition Orale,1989.

Niane, D. T. Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali. Trans. G.D. Pickett. London: Longmans, Gree &Co.

Wright, Donald. The Epic of Kelefa Sane as a Guide to the Nature of Precolonial Senegambian Society. 3 vols. Dakar: Institut Fondamanetal d'Afrique Noire, 1968.

Poetry:

Senghor, L. S. Poems. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1974.