Parcours de lectures d’hier à aujourd’hui : trois siècles de littératures francophones

Authors

Christiane Ndiaye, Université de Montréal

Abstract

Forty years ago, the francophone literatures of Africa and the Caribbean were still taught as “emerging” literatures having allegedly entered the international literary scene with the Negritude movement. Since then, critical perspectives have evolved, considerably modifying this way of presenting the history of francophone literatures of the South. Today it is rather the history of a constant questioning of the various pernicious boundaries drawn since colonial times, a history of constantly renewed inventiveness. I retrace some facts of interest retained from my own continuous discovery of this multifaced territory, starting with the still little-known history of Haitian literature of the 19th century, until to the appearance, in the 1980s, of an innovative practice of popular fiction, and including the works of women writers who, since the beginning of the 20th century, have challenged in their own way the conventional forms, beliefs and generally held ideologies which divide societies.

Recommended Citation

Ndiaye, Christiane (2021) "Parcours de lectures d’hier à aujourd’hui : trois siècles de littératures francophones," Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 96: No. 1, Article 4.
Available at: https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol96/iss1/4