This collection of essays looks at the body of work of Quebec writer Dany Laferriere, including his notorious first novel, Comment faire l'amour avec un Negre sans se fatiguer, through a variety of critical and analytic lenses. Issues such as identity, privilege, memory, exile and return are examined in relation to his writing. Among the contributors are: Ng'ang'a wa Muchiri, Gabrielle Parker, Lucy Brisley, Lynn Penrod, Amy J Ransom, and Lee Skallerup Bessette.