Introduction: Francophonie and litterature-monde, friends or foes? -- Writing as mimicry: Tierno Monenembo's colonial avatar -- Writing as desire: Nina Bouraoui and Helene Cixous -- Writing as otherness: Marie Ndiaye's inalterable humanity -- Writing as explosion: Maryse Conde's transnational textual bodies -- Writing as remembering: Lyonel Trouillot on love and Haiti -- Conclusion: Toward a literature of mobility and hospitality.