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 | | As part of the history and culture of the peoples, African and Caribbean literature in French reflects the traumatic history of imperialism (colonial and neo-colonial) and its political, economic, and cultural manifestations. |
 | | But there is also a political engagement that is discernible in the works of the new generation of writers, witnesses to an era torn between the vast hopes aroused by independence and the disillusioning experiences of early statehood--dictatorship, repressions, imprisonments, tortures, executions. |
 | | The Guide is intended primarily for the beginning researcher in graduate and upper-undergraduate levels at Howard University, but it will also be informative and useful to the experienced researcher elsewhere in areas that he has not had occasion to explore. |
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