Roger Toumson: La Transgression des couleurs: Littérature et langage des Antilles, XVIIIe, XlXe et XXe siècles.

This article focuses on the book "Afro-Antillean Literature in French," by Roger Toumson. The book is published in two volumes and the author's goal is to establish how, why and when Afro-Antillean literature acceded to a meaningful autonomy. The book is divided into three sections. It starts with a discussion of methodology and a definition of its topic. The second section is an attempt to characterize the white "Creole" literary production of the earlier period and it focuses in particular on the rise of an Antillean regionalism. The third section presents an account of the discursive system of Negritude, highlighting factors that helped bring about the birth and subsequent evolution of a literary ideology based upon a cultural and racial coming to awareness.