The Author: Kwaku A. Gyasi is Associate Professor of Foreign Languages at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He received his Ph.D. in French from The Ohio State University. His publications have appeared in several professional journals.

«This book is an important contribution to Francophone literary translation studies. Its approach to literary translation – not just in the conventional, linguistic sense, but more fundamentally as the expression, in the case of Francophone African writers, of what the author calls an «‘alien’ imagination in a European tongue»-is of significance, beyond its immediate literature of reference, for second-language literary studies.» (John Conteh-Morgan, Associate Professor of French and Editor of ‘Research in African Literatures’, The Ohio State University)