Smith, Alice J.2024-04-262024-04-26https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/7465A version of this article was presented before the Five College Faculty Seminar in African Studies in 1981. It emerges from the author's specialization in West African and Caribbean Francophone Literature.African Francophone LiteratureAfrican Diaspora LiteratureRENE MARAN'S <em>BATOUALA</em> AND THE <em>PRIX-GONCOURT</em>article