Asya Djoulait, precious language

Asya Djoulaït. @ F. Mantovani - Gallimard

By: Yasmine Chouaki

I just closed his first novel and I am conquered. In 160 nervous pages, Noire Précieuse walks through the red light district of Château Rouge in Paris, with a jubilation of language (French Ivorian) and identity issues full of flesh: can we in 2020 be a black girl, gifted , and fall in love with a Gregory without asking questions of color?

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The good surprise comes from the language and its author, which has nothing to do with Château Rouge and the Ivorian diaspora. Born of Algerian parents and teacher of literature in high school, Asya Djoulaït should have had a drink at the exit of this precious Noire which coincides with the 20 years of the Black Continents collection of Gallimard editions in March 2020. But containment in deconfinement, it took toast otherwise ...

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