Blank Darkness: Africanist Discourse in French

By Christopher L. Miller

Book Overview

"Blank Darkness: Africanist Discourse in French is a brilliant and altogether convincing analysis of the way in which Western writers, from Homer to the twentieth century have . . . imposed their language of desire on the least-known part of the world and have called it 'Africa.' There are excellent readings here of writers ranging from Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Sade, and C line to Conrad and Yambo Ouologuem, but even more impressive and important than these individual readings is Mr. Miller's wide-ranging, incisive, and exact analysis of 'Africanist' discourse, what it has been and what it has meant in the literature of the Western world."-James Olney, Louisiana State University

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226526224
• ISBN13: 9780226526225
• Release Date: February 1986
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 283 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"