Submitted: Thurs, 21 August 2003 Claire L. Dehon Professor Department of Modern Languages Kansas State University Manhattan, Kansas 66506 USA E-mail: dehoncl@ksu.edu My research is on twentieth century novels from black Africa written in French. Publications: Le réalisme africain. Le roman francophone en Afrique subsaharienne, Paris: L'Harmattan, 2002. Le roman camérounais d'expression française, Birmingham: Summa, 1989.