"A first-rate contribution to universal knowledge. This book is destined to remain a classic of the new semiotic critical approach of authors. It will be indispensable to students around the world enrolled in programs in literatures of the French expression and to professors who teach these literatures."--Gerard Etienne, Universite de Moncton

Keith L. Walker is Associate Professor of French and Italian at Dartmouth College and coeditor of Postcolonial Subjects: Francophone Women Writers.