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Black France: Colonialism, Immigration, and Transnationalism
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The International Journal of African Historical Studies
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January 1, 2008
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Black France: Colonialism, Immigration, and Transnationalism. By Dominic Thomas. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2007. Pp xv, 305. $75.00 cloth, $27.95 paper.
As Nicolas Sarkozy's France continues to interrogate what it means to be French in queries often vectored through questions of race and national origin, Dominic Thomas's recently published Black France is indeed timely. Drawing on a variety of genres by Francophone African and Diaspora authors (autobiography, the short story, the novel, the testimonial, among others), Thomas's study convincingly uses literature to document the symbiotic and always ambivalent nature of the historical relationship between France ...
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