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'As her recent award from the African Literature Association suggests, Bush's book is a necessary contribution to scholarship on African literature. But its intervention extends beyond this field, as she deliberately chooses not to limit her study to an Afrocentric account of literary history . Indeed, scholars of French literature and history will find Bush's study immensely useful as well. Not only does this monograph offer many stimulating leads for scholars, such as the need for work on the history of educational publishing in francophone Africa, but it also serves as a methodological model for future research.' Madeline Bedecarre, Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature 'Publishing Africa in French provides new perspectives for the study of African literature beyond the Francophone context, and paves the way for scholarship to engage with other lines of research, such as the history of literary reception and the material conditions of educational publishing. More importantly, the volume provides a valuable toolkit for scholars working on Francophone African literature who seek to enlarge, nuance, or counterbalance their understandings of literary texts.' Khalid Lyamlahy, Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation 'Bush's study is innovative and lucid in depicting the 'complex portrait of the French-language publishing scene' (p. 251) in which African letters contributed to shift the 'Parisian capital of the world republic of letters' (p. 195).' Alioune Sow, French Studies Reviews 'This is an excellent monograph, which challenges a number of received views and brings a wealth of new evidence into the debates about Francophone post-war literature about Africa. In particular, its mining of a largely untapped archive opens up new directions for research which other scholars will no doubt follow.' David Murphy, Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies

An extremely interesting, well-written and original book that offers a fresh approach to colonial and post-colonial francophone literary studies. -- Dr Kathryn Batchelor

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Ruth Bush is Lecturer in French at the University of Bristol.

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