Postcolonial Francophone Autobiographies: From Africa to the Antilles

Note on Translation

note on tr a nsl at ion For books available in French only, the translation is mine. I have left the translation in the body of the chapters and moved the original French quotations to the Notes section. For books with an existing English translation (Chamoiseau and Condé), I maintained the translation and moved the French quotations to the Notes. In the chapters on Chamoiseau and Confiant, I intentionally left a few passages untranslated to keep the original meaning in French or in Creole and to make my analysis dependent upon the nuances of those two languages. Postcolonial Francophone Autobiographies ...