Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1. Léopold Sédar Senghor: Politician and Poet between Hybridity and Solitude
• 2. Aimé Césaire: From Poetic Insurrection to Humanist Ethics
• 3. Frantz Fanon: Experiments in Collective Identity
• 4. Jean El-Mouhoub Amrouche: The Universal Intellectual?
• 5. Mouloud Feraoun: Postcolonial Realism, or, the Intellectual as Witness
• 6. Kateb Yacine: Poetry and Revolution
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index

About the Author

Jane Hiddleston is Professor of Literatures in French at the University of Oxford.

Reviews

Reviews'An extremely erudite study of the vexed questions facing Francophone intellectuals in their response to colonial politics, ideas and culture and received ideas of the human. It is intellectually strong and very well written.'
Max Silverman, University of Leeds

'Each of the chapters makes incisive contributions to the subfields of Negritude and Maghrebi studies, and would thus serve well in specialized graduate seminars. Taught as a book, it is suitable for both graduate courses on postcolonial theory and undergraduate francophone literature classes.'
Olivia Harrison, French Studies Journal