摘要：This edited collection of 13 papers derives from an international conference on contemporary trends in African literature hosted by CALS, the Centre for African Literary Studies at Pietermaritzburg. The contributors are, in the main, affiliated with African universities, and the volume ends with a note by Mbulelo Mzamane, current director of CALS, who hopes the Centre will become a world resource for the study of African literature with a strong focus on literature of the diaspora. The volume is divided into three parts: ‘Changing Faces’, ‘Changing Themes’, and ‘Diversity’. Perhaps in keeping with the idea of diversity, half of the essays in this book are in French, with English summaries, and vice versa. Though the summaries themselves are excellent, the bilingual contributions might well be off-putting for some readers.
