Ana Paula Coutinho, Maria de Fátima Outeirinho and José Domingues de Almeida (eds.) (2014), Nos et leurs Afriques. Constructions littéraires des identités africaines cinquante ans après les décolonisations. Bruxelles: Peter Lang, 249 pp.

This important book explores the plurality of identities (or better, their polyphony) at work in Lusophone, Francophone and Anglophone African literature. At the core of its analysis are ‘representations’ of Africa and its gendered and racialized identities, forged by the former colonial metropole, from its colonial culture. The essays focus on both written and visual texts (mostly cinema and novels), where these ‘images’ are constructed and unravelled through a critique that targets both Eur..