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The tears of the Black man / Alain Mabanckou ; translated by Dominic Thomas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mabanckou, Alain, 1966- author.
- Series:
- Global African voices.
- Global African voices
- Standardized Title:
- Sanglot de l'homme noir. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Black people--France--Attitudes.
- Black people.
- Black people--Race identity--France.
- Black people--France--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English; translated from the French.
- Summary:
- Embracing the challenges faced by ethnic minority communities today, The Tears of the Black Man looks to the future, arguing that the history of Africa has yet to be written and seeking a path toward affirmation and reconciliation.
- Contents:
- The black man's tears (Pascal Bruckner)
- A Negro in Paris (Bernard Dadie)
- The spirit of the laws (Montesquieu)
- Murderous identities (Amin Maalouf)
- Road to Europe (Ferdinand Oyono)
- How can one be Persian? (Montesquieu)
- The foreign student (Philippe Labro)
- Bound to violence (Yambo Ouologuem)
- The identity card (Jean-Marc Adiaffi)
- Literature of the stomach (Julien Gracq)
- Phantom Africa (Michel Leiris)
- The suns of independence (Ahmadou Kourouma).
- Notes:
- "First published as Le Sanglot de l'Homme Noir by Editions Fayard (c) 2012."
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780253035851
- 0253035856
- 9780253035844
- 0253035848
- OCLC:
- 1032288259
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