Engaging with the works of, among others, Joseph Zobel, Ferdinand Oyono, and Sembène Ousmane, Dr. Muratore's wide-ranging study discerns that "the struggle for metaphysical and linguistic liberation is eloquently metaphorized and filled with regenerative signifiers," even if these are often "tainted by the past." Ultimately, "from the vestiges of yesteryear's immobility" there "emerges a counter-discourse: a new and irrevocable poetics of postcolonial triumph."