"Toubab La!"
Literary Representations of Mixed-race Characters in the African Diaspora

Presents an examination of mixed-race characters from writers in the United States, The French and British Caribbean islands, Europe, and Africa. This work aims to capture a realistic view of the literature of the African diaspora as it pertains to biracial and multiracial people. Each section provides an analysis of specific authors' novels.

Finally, the last section of the book is a study of novels from West African and South African writers. The analysis of Monique Ilboudo's "Le Mal de Peau" (2001), Bessie Head's "A Woman Alone: Autobiographical Writings" (1990) and Abdoulaye Sadji's "Nini, Mulatresse du Senegal" (1947) concludes this literary journey that takes the readers through several continents at different points in time. Overall, this comprehensive study of mixed-race characters in the literature of the African diaspora reveals not only the old but also the new ways they decline, contest and refuse racial cliches. Likewise, the book unveils how these characters resist, create, reappropriate and revise fixed forms of identity in the African diaspora of the 20th and 21st century. Most importantly, it is also an examination of how the authors themselves deal with the complex reality of a multiracial identity.