Focusing on the African writer and the language of the former colonial power The Francophone
African Text: Translation and the Postcolonial Experience highlights the writer's
re-appropriation of the foreign language in the creative writing process. It calls attention to
the African writer's use of French a process of creative translation in which the writer's
words form a hybrid code that compels the original French to refer to the indigenous African
language for meaning. Examining a group of works under the theme of translation this book
reveals that a consideration of both ideological and linguistic elements enhances understanding
of the subject from the broader perspective of postcolonial discourse.
