(Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis Books Ltd, 2021) Scott, Joyce H.
This chapter argues that the novels Une Citronnelle dans la Neige, by Gisèle Hountondji, and Le Mal de Peau, by Monique Ilboudo, deliver pioneering revisions of traditional views of the African woman through their novelizations of experiences of the young, African woman immigrant student in Paris. The novels re-spatialize colonialism and its postcolonial aftermath through a gendered (re)presentation that disrupts the oft-perceived image of France as the desired destiny of the African migrant, by interrogating race relations in the metropole and their impact on the sociocultural and psychic wellbeing of these young women.
