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From Africa: New Francophone Stories.(Book Review)
From Africa: New Francophone Stories ED. ADELE KING Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2004. 150 pp. ISBN 0-8032-7801-1 paper.
This slim and attractive product gathers together 14 short stories from sub-Saharan French-speaking Africa, almost all of them translated specifically for the purposes of this anthology (and at least two of the pieces written especially for it). As the editor, Adele King, outlines in her introduction, the intention of her collection is to make available conveniently a fair sample of recent work--say, of the past decade, which is about the usual timelag in such publishing--from those "margins" that are nowadays so enriching the core French literature of the motherlands.
Her sources are of interest: up to her starting point Radio France …
