Between Totem And Taboo: Black Man, White Woman in Francographic LiteratureBetween Totem and Taboo picks its way judiciously through a minefield of prejudice, myth and stereotypes. It is the first book to explore the literary representation by authors black and white, male and female, of interracial relations between France and her former territories in West Africa through the special nexus of the white woman and the black manPresented as a text based chronological exploration of the relationship from 1740 to the present