Women Writers in Francophone Africa

Nicki Hitchcott Lecturer in French,University of Nottingham

'Nicki Hitchcott's work has the merit of a remarkable intellectual honesty. Critical presuppositions may not be shared, but they are clearly signed and justified in a lucid fashion in the course of the study.'Etudes Litteraires Africaines'[The book] forces its readers to reassess any preconceptions they may have about women's writing and the place of women's writing in the canon. At the same time, it examines our attitudes towards Africa and African writing, making this a thought provoking and challenging work.'Francophonie'Hitchcott's work includes an excellent bibliograhpy.'Choice'Women Writers in Francophone Africa opens up to the English-speaking African, letting him/her get a peak into what his/her French-speaking women writers have been doing all along.'Expo Times'By asking that her study be read as a dialogue between a Western feminist reader and the francophone voices of African femininity, Hitchcott demonstrates her receptiveness: through her capacity