Book Reviews

La Création Romanesque chez Williams Sassine, Philip Amangoua Atcha (2011) Paris: Harmattan, 252 pp., ISBN: 978-2-296-55053-7, p/bk, 23.50

A Taste for the Foreign: Worldly Knowledge and Literary Pleasure in Early Modern French Fiction, Ellen R. Welch (2011) Newark: University of Delaware Press, xxviii + 225pp., ISBN: 978-1-61149-062-6, h/bk, £44.95

Violence in Francophone African & Caribbean Women’s Literature, Chantal Kalisa (2009) Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 225 pp., ISBN: 978-0-8032-1102-5, h/bk, $45.00

Writing Postcolonial France: Haunting, Literature, and the Maghreb, Fiona Barclay (2011) Plymouth: Lexington Books, 152 pp, ISBN: 978-0-7391-4503-6, h/bk, $64.99, £39.95

La Terre et le sang/Land and Blood (trans. Patricia Geesey), Mouloud Feraoun ([1953]) 2012) Charlottesville/London: University of Virginia Press, 243 pp., ISBN: 978-0-8139-3220-0, h/bk, $59.50; ISBN: 978-0-8139-3221-7, p/bk, $22.50

Cherchez la femme: Women and Values in the Francophone World, Erika Fülöp and Adrienne Angelo (eds) (2011) Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 292 pp., ISBN: 978-1-4438-2933-5, h/bk, £39.99

Patrick Chamoiseau: A Critical Introduction, Wendy Knepper (2012) Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 274pp., ISBN: 978-1-61703-154-0, h/bk, ebook 978-1-61703-155-7, $55

Beyond the Slave Narrative: Politics, Sex, and Manuscripts in the Haitian Revolution, Deborah Jenson (2011) Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 322 pp., ISBN: 978-1-84631-497-1, h/bk, £65, ISBN: 978-1-84631-760-6, p/bk, £16.99

Postcolonial Poetics: Genre and Form, P. Crowley and J. Hiddleston (2011) Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 279 pp., ISBN: 978-1-84631-745-3, h/bk £55.85

Francophone Women: Between Visibility and Invisibility, Cybelle H. McFadden and Sandrine F. Teixidor (eds) (2010) New York: Peter Lang, Francophone Cultures and Literatures, 143 pp., ISBN: 978-1-4331-0803-7, h/bk, 60 , £48