Negritude and Literary Criticism The History and Theory of "Negro-African" Literature in French

'œJack's book is a useful survey for anyone interested in the development not just of French-African literature, but of African literature or postcolonial literature in general, serving to show the long-standing nature of contemporary debates such as the problematic of writing in the language of the former colonizer. By historicizing the term Negritude and placing it within wider textual and cultural contexts, Jack's book serves as a corrective to the less generative and more typical approach of attempting to artificially fix the term in Paris in the 1930's.'' Journal of Third World StudiesJack, Belinda E. is the author of 'Negritude and Literary Criticism The History and Theory of "Negro-African" Literature in French' with ISBN 9780313295119 and ISBN 0313295115.