Claire Ducournau. — La fabrique des classiques africains : Écrivains d’Afrique subsaharienne (1960-2012)

Largely sourced from her 2012 EHESS doctoral thesis, Claire Ducournau’s La fabrique des classiques africains: Écrivains d’Afrique subsaharienne francophone is a well-researched socio-literary inquiry into the structural conditions that shape the production, reception, and legitimation of sub-Saharan African artistic creations of French expression. While the study’s underlying anti-hegemonic and postcolonial temper pits it against the institutionalized, largely Paris-centric, modes and norms o..