The Francophone African Text: Translation and the Postcolonial Experience

Gyasi (foreign languages, U. Alabama-Huntsville) examines how translation functions as a critical as well as creative activity in African literature, that is, how translation is not just a carrying a work across a linguistic border, but is also a transformation and transmutation of it. In particular, he looks at how several authors use African language in French-language works. Annotation 穢2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)