This book explores how Gabonese writer Sylvie Ntsame’s novels challenge patriarchal traditions that silence women. Ntsame counters racism and the objectification of the black female body with depictions of idealized interracial love, calling for understanding between cultures.
Paschal Kyiiripuo Kyoore
Paschal Kyiiripuo Kyoore is a professor of French and Francophone African/Caribbean literatures at Gustavus Adolphus College (USA), where he is a co-founder and former Director of the African/African Diaspora Studies program. He obtained his BA (Hons) in French and Spanish at the University of Ghana-Legon. He also studied at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He acquired his MA and Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies (DEA) at the Université de Bordeaux III (France), his PhD at Ohio State University (USA), and his MPA at Minnesota State University-Mankato (USA). His publications include The African and Caribbean Historical Novel in French: A Quest for Identity; Dagara Verbal Art: An African Tradition; Contes Dagara: Ghana; Folktales of the Dagara of West Africa vol.1; and Dagara Folk Tales. His research largely focuses on the historical novel, the female condition, and African folklore.