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De la Négritude à la Créolité: Edouard Glissant, Maryse Condé et la malédiction de la théorie, by Cilas Kemedjio
Toward the middle of this remarkable study on the subject of theory with regard to African and Caribbean literature, Cilas Kemedjio cites Mongo Beti's poignant question: "Pourquoi ne puis-je pas écrire librement and dans le bonheur, comme les autres écrivains de mon pays d'adoption" `Why can't I write freely and happily like the other writers of my adopted country [France]?' The answer for Beti is "very simple": he is an African writer, and unlike French writers, he bears the burden of working toward freedom; he cannot take it for granted yet. The aim of Kemedjio's study is, in many ways, to explain the multiple components of this deceptively simple answer, since long after the era of independence struggles,...