African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
209 p., Explores the limits and prospects of Afro-Caribbean Francophone writers in reshaping or producing action-oriented literature. Part One explores the origins of Afro-Caribbean Francophone literature and what the author terms griotism-- a shared heritage of awareness of biological differences, a sense of the black hero as black messiah and black people as chosen, and the promise of a common racial history.