Retour au pays natal: What African-Born French Authors Tell Their Young Readers About Their Native Country

This article shows that the writing of Franco-African youth authors who write about their native country is marked by what W.E.B. Du Bois calls "double consciousness", i.e. the awareness of the way society looks at them and at their continent of origin. This "double consciousness" manifests itself, among other things, through the attempt to rectify the reductive societal image projected on them and on their native country by showing another facet of the latter. A specificity of these works also resides in the fact that they have a 'double ethno-racial and cultural address': they address a majority (white) public and an Afrodescendant public at the same time T