Reviews

"[The Black Terrorist] is a fascinating study of resistance and race in occupied France, skillfully written and hauntingly presented.... Tierno Monénembo brings the histories of metropolitan and colonial France together, exploring the transnational and universal dimension of the French Resistance. He uses the novelist's craft to illuminate a neglected aspect of French history, in all its complexity and heartbreak.... As an historical novel, it thus succeeds admirably in bringing to life the colonial contribution to the French Resistance, and more broadly a new vision of national identity during modern France's darkest hour. By reframing our understanding of the Resistance around a colonial subject, [The Black Terrorist] forces us to rethink our ideas about what it means to be French, both during World War II and today." -Tyler Stovall, author of Black France⁄France Noire: The History and Politics of Blackness