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Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon (review)

and his fellow African students often had a better knowledge of French grammar than most of their French colleagues. Mabanckou describes with humor his encounters with black people in France and in the United States (as well as with a white Frenchman who thinks Mabanckou must have been adopted by a white family to have a French passport). He meets an African American who hates him as he has taken a job that should have been given to an American. He also, however, meets a white French family with whom he is immediately in rapport as they comment happily on how obese Americans are. The incident reinforces his belief that culture and language are essential ingredients in his identity.