Author: Guy Ossito Midiohouan
Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan
ISBN: 2296440886
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : fr
Pages : 252

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Author: Christopher L. Miller
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226528022
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 339

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"Situating literature and anthropology in mutual interrogation, Miller's...book actually performs what so many of us only call for. Nowhere have all the crucial issues been brought together with the sort of critical sophistication it displays."—Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ". . . a superb cross-disciplinary analysis."—Y. Mudimbe

Author: Dominic Thomas
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253215544
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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The relationship between literature & the state is examined in this discussion of Francophone African literature. Dominic Thomas considers the case of the Congo, where the recent transition to democracy was in part inspired by the works of Sony Labou Tansi, Henri Lopes, & Emmanuel Dongala among others.

Author: Dominic Thomas
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253218810
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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"[W]ithout a doubt one of the most important studies so far completed on literature in French grounded in the experiences of migrants of sub-Saharan African origin." —Alec Hargreaves, Florida State University France has always hosted a rich and vibrant black presence within its borders. But recent violent events have raised questions about France's treatment of ethnic minorities. Challenging the identity politics that have set immigrants against the mainstream, Black France explores how black expressive culture has been reformulated as global culture in the multicultural and multinational spaces of France. Thomas brings forward questions such as—Why is France a privileged site of civilization? Who is French? Who is an immigrant? Who controls the networks of production? Black France poses an urgently needed reassessment of the French colonial legacy.

Author: K. Martial Frindéthié
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786492082
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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This work explores the limits and prospects of Afro-Caribbean Francophone writers in reshaping or producing action-oriented literature. It shows how Francophone literatures have followed a hegemonic discourse that leaves little room for thinking outside of traditional cultural and ideological conventions. Part One explores the origins of Afro-Caribbean Francophone literature and what the author terms "griotism"--a shared heritage of awareness of biological differences, a sense of the black hero as black messiah and black people as chosen, and the promise of a common racial history. Part Two discusses the formidable grip of griotism on Fanon, Mudimbe, the champions of Creolity (Bernabe, Chamoiseau, and Confiant), and well-read African women writers (Aminata Sow Fall, and Mariama Ba). Part Three seeks to subvert the discourse of griotism in order to propose a new autonomy for Francophone African writers.

Author: Ruth Bush
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 178138195X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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An exploration of African literary production in France and its socio-economic implications.

Author: Abiola Irele
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521855608
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 309

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An overview of the key novels and novelists of the continent, covering multiple cultures and languages.

Author: Jonathan P. Smithe
Publisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781590332900
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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African literature, like the continent itself is enormous and diverse. East Africa's literature is different from West Africa's which is quite different from South Africa's which has different influences on it than North Africa's. Africa's literature is based on a widespread heritage of oral literature, some of which has now been recorded. Arabic influence can be detected as well as European, especially French and English. Legends, myths, proverbs, riddles and folktales form the mother load of the oral literature. This book presents an overview of African literature as well as a comprehensive bibliography, primarily of English language sources. Accessed by subject, author and title indexes.

Author: Odile Cazenave
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813931150
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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By looking at engagée literature from the recent past, when the francophone African writer was implicitly seen as imparted with a mission, to the present, when such authors usually aspire to be acknowledged primarily for their work as writers, Contemporary Francophone African Writers and the Burden of Commitment addresses the currrent processes of canonization in contemporary francophone African literature. Odile Cazenave and Patricia Célérier argue that aesthetic as well as political issues are now at the forefront of debates about the African literary canon, as writers and critics increasingly acknowledge the ideology of form. Working across genres but focusing on the novel, the authors take up the question of renewed forms of commitment in this literature. Their selected writers range from Mongo Beti, Ousmane Sembène, and Aminata Sow Fall to Boubacar Boris Diop, Véronique Tadjo, Alain Mabanckou, and Léonora Miano, among others.

Author: Phanuel Akubueze Egejuru
Publisher: Africa World Press
ISBN: 9780865436183
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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