Rewriting the Return to Africa: Voices of Francophone Caribbean Women Writers Pub Group West Presents 18 peer-reviewed and revised

Presents 18 peer-reviewed and revised papers from the 31st Annual Conference on African Linguistics

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photographers Rotimi Fani-Kayode and Gordon Parks

Rewriting the Return to Africa: Voices of Francophone Caribbean Women Writers Pub Group West Presents 18 peer-reviewed and revisedRewriting The Return to Africa: Voices of Francophone Caribbean Women Writers examines the ways Guadeloupean women writers Maryse Cond, Simone Schwarz Bart and Myriam Warner Vieyra demystify the theme of the return to Africa as opposed to the masculinist version by Ngritude male writers from the 1930s to 1960s. Ngritude, a cultural and literary movement, drew much of its strength from the idea of a mythical or cultural reconnection with the African