Christopher L. Miller
Blank Darkness: Africanist Discourse in French
The University of Chicago Press, 1985. First printing. 0226526224 xii/267 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright.
This work is "a brilliant and altogether convincing analysis of the way in which Western writers, from Homer to the twentieth century have...imposed their language of desire on the least-known part of the world and have called it "Africa." There are excellent readings here of writings ranging from Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Sade, and Céline to Conrad and Yambo Ouologuem, but even more impressive and important than these individual readings is Mr. Miller's wide-ranging, incisive, and exact analysis of "Africanist" discourse, what it has been and whit it has meant in the literature of Western world."