Nicki Hitchcott is Professor of French and African Studies at the University of St Andrews. Dominic Thomas is Madeleine L. Letessier Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California Los Angeles.

'With the publishing of this authoritative ground-breaking volume on Afropean literatures of French expression, it is hoped that the mainstreaming of the term into lexicography will soon become a reality.'Augustine H. Asaah, Cahiers d'Études Africaines

• Introduction: Francophone Afropeans - Nicki Hitchcott and Dominic Thomas1. Afropeanism and Francophone Sub-Saharan African Writing - Dominic Thomas2. The Transatlantic Poetics of Fatou Diome - Kathryn M. Lachman3. Corps sans titre: ‘fleshiness’ and Afropean identity in Bessora’s 53 cm - John Nimis4. Already Here: Sami Tchak’s Afropean Generation - Allison Van Deventer5. Paris Polar: Afropean Noir in the City of Lights - Dawn Fulton6. Mapping Afropea: The Translation of Black Paris in the Fiction of Alain Mabanckou - John Patrick Walsh7. Relighting Stars and Bazars of Voices: Exchange and Dialogue in Léonora Miano’s Tels des Astres Éteints and Alain Mabanckou’s Black Bazar - Kathryn Kleppinger8. Sex and the Afropean City: Léonora Miano’s Blues pour Elise - Nicki Hitchcott9. Toward an Afropean Cosmopolitanism: Hospitality, Friendship and the African Immigrant - Srilata Ravi10. Afropean Masculinities as Bricolage - Ayo A. ColySHORT STORIES:Fatou Diome - ‘The Old Man and the Boat’Léonora Miano - ‘The Rain-maker Affair’Abdourahman A. Waberi - ‘The Squirrels of Wannsee’Wilfried N’Sondé - ‘Francasterix’Sami Tchak - ‘At the Borders of my Skin’Alain Mabanckou - ‘Confessions of a sapeur’BibliographyIndex

Nicki Hitchcott is Professor of French and African Studies at the University of St Andrews. Dominic Thomas is Madeleine L. Letessier Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California Los Angeles.

'With the publishing of this authoritative ground-breaking volume on Afropean literatures of French expression, it is hoped that the mainstreaming of the term into lexicography will soon become a reality.'Augustine H. Asaah, Cahiers d'Études Africaines

• Introduction: Francophone Afropeans - Nicki Hitchcott and Dominic Thomas1. Afropeanism and Francophone Sub-Saharan African Writing - Dominic Thomas2. The Transatlantic Poetics of Fatou Diome - Kathryn M. Lachman3. Corps sans titre: ‘fleshiness’ and Afropean identity in Bessora’s 53 cm - John Nimis4. Already Here: Sami Tchak’s Afropean Generation - Allison Van Deventer5. Paris Polar: Afropean Noir in the City of Lights - Dawn Fulton6. Mapping Afropea: The Translation of Black Paris in the Fiction of Alain Mabanckou - John Patrick Walsh7. Relighting Stars and Bazars of Voices: Exchange and Dialogue in Léonora Miano’s Tels des Astres Éteints and Alain Mabanckou’s Black Bazar - Kathryn Kleppinger8. Sex and the Afropean City: Léonora Miano’s Blues pour Elise - Nicki Hitchcott9. Toward an Afropean Cosmopolitanism: Hospitality, Friendship and the African Immigrant - Srilata Ravi10. Afropean Masculinities as Bricolage - Ayo A. ColySHORT STORIES:Fatou Diome - ‘The Old Man and the Boat’Léonora Miano - ‘The Rain-maker Affair’Abdourahman A. Waberi - ‘The Squirrels of Wannsee’Wilfried N’Sondé - ‘Francasterix’Sami Tchak - ‘At the Borders of my Skin’Alain Mabanckou - ‘Confessions of a sapeur’BibliographyIndex

Nicki Hitchcott is Professor of French and African Studies at the University of St Andrews. Dominic Thomas is Madeleine L. Letessier Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California Los Angeles.

'With the publishing of this authoritative ground-breaking volume on Afropean literatures of French expression, it is hoped that the mainstreaming of the term into lexicography will soon become a reality.'Augustine H. Asaah, Cahiers d'Études Africaines

• Introduction: Francophone Afropeans - Nicki Hitchcott and Dominic Thomas1. Afropeanism and Francophone Sub-Saharan African Writing - Dominic Thomas2. The Transatlantic Poetics of Fatou Diome - Kathryn M. Lachman3. Corps sans titre: ‘fleshiness’ and Afropean identity in Bessora’s 53 cm - John Nimis4. Already Here: Sami Tchak’s Afropean Generation - Allison Van Deventer5. Paris Polar: Afropean Noir in the City of Lights - Dawn Fulton6. Mapping Afropea: The Translation of Black Paris in the Fiction of Alain Mabanckou - John Patrick Walsh7. Relighting Stars and Bazars of Voices: Exchange and Dialogue in Léonora Miano’s Tels des Astres Éteints and Alain Mabanckou’s Black Bazar - Kathryn Kleppinger8. Sex and the Afropean City: Léonora Miano’s Blues pour Elise - Nicki Hitchcott9. Toward an Afropean Cosmopolitanism: Hospitality, Friendship and the African Immigrant - Srilata Ravi10. Afropean Masculinities as Bricolage - Ayo A. ColySHORT STORIES:Fatou Diome - ‘The Old Man and the Boat’Léonora Miano - ‘The Rain-maker Affair’Abdourahman A. Waberi - ‘The Squirrels of Wannsee’Wilfried N’Sondé - ‘Francasterix’Sami Tchak - ‘At the Borders of my Skin’Alain Mabanckou - ‘Confessions of a sapeur’BibliographyIndex