Calixthe Beyala

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Rigorous in its scholarship, Hitchcott's Calixthe Beyala is an invaluable and accessible resource for both specialists and the reader coming to Beyala's work for the first time. Modern Language Review The first book-length study B. To be published in English. Analysing the performance of migrant identities by B. And her fictional characters, and tracing the fictional migration of Beyala's settings between Africa and France, H. Provides close critical analysis of Beyala's novels from C'eset le soleil qui m'a brulee (1987) to La Plantation (2005). The Years Work in Modern Languages Studies, Volume 69 (2007) 2009 ... Excellent study with its abundant notes and useful bibliography, tackles the more perplexing questions that have accompanied Calixthe Beyala's meteoric fuse to fame on France's literary scene. International Journal of Francophone Studies, Volume 11, Numbers 1 & 2 2008 Hitchcott's searching analysis of performances of migration is an invaluable tool for researchers working in the field of postcolonial studies. Although in her last chapter, Hitchott alludes to the view of Beyala being some sort of self-promoting fake, nevertheless this energetic writer has given the critics rich controversial material, to which Hitchcott does full justice in this survey. Francophone Postcolonial Studies, 5.2 2007