Calixthe Beyala: Performances of Migration
ISBN: 9781846312724
Platform/Publisher: Oxford Academic / Liverpool University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Literary Studies (European);

As the most successful female writer from Francophone Africa, Calixthe Beyala occupies an unusual place in French literary and popular culture. Her novels are bestsellers, and she appears regularly on French television and radio, yet her reputation has in recent years been tarnished by allegations of plagiarism. She is lauded both as a consecrated, best-selling OCyauthenticOCO African author and a proven literary OCyfakeOCO, found guilty of plagiarism in the High Court in Paris but in the same year awarded the highly prestigious Grand Prix du roman de lOCOAcad(r)mie Fran aise for one of the novels in which she had allegedly plagiarized. In Calixthe Beyala, Nicki Hitchcott considers Beyala as an icon and a writer. She explores representations of Beyala in the media, the varied critical responses to her writing, and BeyalaOCOs efforts to position herself as a champion of womenOCOs rights in Africa. Hitchcott pays equal attention to the novels themselves, tracing their explorations of the role of migration in the creation of personal identity. Calixthe Beyala is a nuanced attempt to understand the work OCo and public role OCo of one of the most important women writing today."


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