Nation Building Propaganda And Literature In Francophone Africa
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Nation Building Propaganda And Literature In Francophone Africa
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Author : Dominic Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2002-11-19
Nation Building Propaganda And Literature In Francophone Africa written by Dominic Thomas and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11-19 with History categories.
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.
Nation Building Propaganda And Literature In Francophone Africa
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Author : Dominic Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2002-11-19
Nation Building Propaganda And Literature In Francophone Africa written by Dominic Thomas and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
What characterizes the relationship between literature and the state? Should literature serve the needs of the state by constructing national consciousness, espousing state propaganda, and molding good citizens? Or should it be dedicated to a different kind of creative social endeavor? In this important book about literature and the politics of nation-building, Dominic Thomas assesses the contributions of Francophone African writers whose works have played a key role in the recent transition to democracy in the Congo. Exploring the works of Sony Labou Tansi, Henri Lopes, and Emmanuel Dongala, among others, Thomas highlights writers intimately involved with government and politics -- whether in support of the state's vision or with the intention of articulating a more open view of citizens and society. Focusing on themes such as collaboration, reconciliation, identity, history, and memory, Nation-Building, Propaganda, and Literature in Francophone Africa elaborates a broader understanding of the circumstances of African colonization, modern African nation-state formation, and the complex cultural dynamics at work in Africa since independence.
Francophone Afropean Literatures
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Author : Nicki Hitchcott
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2014-04-10
Francophone Afropean Literatures written by Nicki Hitchcott and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume explores the concept and possibility of a black European community by analysing the ways in which contemporary Francophone African writers articulate and interrogate their complex relationships with European society, culture and history.
Black France
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Author : Dominic Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2007
Black France written by Dominic Thomas and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
"[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.
The Pull Of Postcolonial Nationhood
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Author : Ayo A. Coly
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2010-06-23
The Pull Of Postcolonial Nationhood written by Ayo A. Coly and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
While the male-dominated Francophone African migrant literary tradition includes women writers, there is no study that attends to this subgroup of writers. The Pull of Postcolonial Nationhood: Gender and Migration in Francophone African Literatures pioneers the study of these writers as a category through an examination of three major women who exemplify the Francophone African female migrant literary tradition: Ken Bugul, Calixthe Beyala, and Fatou Diome. By studying these women together, Ayo A. Coly innovatively introduces gender into prevailing theories of Francophone African migrant literatures. These theories, in line with the current surge of postnationalism in cultural criticism, claim that questions of home and nationhood are obsolete for the present generation of Francophone African migrant writers, but this book shows that the opposite is true in the texts of these writers. Coly is thus able to demonstrate how claims of postnationalism are often skewed by gender-blind understandings of nationalism, namely a failure to consider that women have traditionally been the sites for discourses and practices of nationalism. Amid the negative currency of home and nation in contemporary cultural criticism, including postcolonial criticism, this book contends that home remains a politically, ideologically, and emotionally loaded matter for postcolonial subjects.
A Companion To African Literatures
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Author : Olakunle George
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2021-03-22
A Companion To African Literatures written by Olakunle George and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
Rediscover the diversity of modern African literatures with this authoritative resource edited by a leader in the field How have African literatures unfolded in their rich diversity in our modern era of decolonization, nationalisms, and extensive transnational movement of peoples? How have African writers engaged urgent questions regarding race, nation, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality? And how do African literary genres interrelate with traditional oral forms or audio-visual and digital media? A Companion to African Literatures addresses these issues and many more. Consisting of essays by distinguished scholars and emerging leaders in the field, this book offers rigorous, deeply engaging discussions of African literatures on the continent and in diaspora. It covers the four main geographical regions (East and Central Africa, North Africa, Southern Africa, and West Africa), presenting ample material to learn from and think with. A Companion To African Literatures is divided into five parts. The first four cover different regions of the continent, while the fifth part considers conceptual issues and newer directions of inquiry. Chapters focus on literatures in European languages officially used in Africa -- English, French, and Portuguese -- as well as homegrown African languages: Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Swahili, and Yoruba. With its lineup of lucid and authoritative analyses, readers will find in A Companion to African Literatures a distinctive, rewarding academic resource. Perfect for undergraduate and graduate students in literary studies programs with an African focus, A Companion to African Literatures will also earn a place in the libraries of teachers, researchers, and professors who wish to strengthen their background in the study of African literatures.
Postcolonial Criticism And Representations Of African Dictatorship
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Author : Cecile Bishop
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
Postcolonial Criticism And Representations Of African Dictatorship written by Cecile Bishop and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Foreign Language Study categories.
The figure of the dictator looms large in representations of postcolonial Africa. Since the late 1970s, writers, film-makers and theorists have sought to represent the realities of dictatorship without endorsing the colonialist cliches portraying Africans as incapable of self-government. Against the heavily-politicized responses provoked by this dilemma, Bishop argues for a form of criticism that places the complexity of the reader's or spectator's experiences at the heart of its investigations. Ranging across literature, film and political theory, this study calls for a reengagement with notions - often seen as unwelcome diversions from political questions - such as referentiality, genre and aesthetics. But rather than pit 'political' approaches against formal and aesthetic procedures, the author presents new insights into the interplay of the political and the aesthetic. Cecile Bishop is a Junior Research Fellow in French at Somerville College, Oxford.
African Drama And Performance
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Author : John Conteh-Morgan
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2004-10
African Drama And Performance written by John Conteh-Morgan and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10 with Drama categories.
This title explores the diversity of the performing arts in Africa and the diaspora, from studies of major dramatic authors and formal literary dramas to improvisational theatre and popular video films.
Postcolonial Slavery
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Author : Charlotte Baker
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2009-10-02
Postcolonial Slavery written by Charlotte Baker and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection of eight essays by research students and academics from the UK, France, Germany and the USA examining different forms and manifestations of postcolonial slavery underlines the significance of the year 2007, marking the bicentennial anniversary of the passage of the British law banning the slave trade. Slavery and its legacies galvanized a diachronic series of ethnic crossings and transformations that engendered new and complex patterns of crosscultural contact. And the importance of communities of runaway slaves can scarcely be overstated as a symbol of an insistent black resistance and self-affirmation. But in bringing the material realities of slavery to the forefront of the imagination, this volume also highlights the marginalization of British and French colonial practices in institutionalized frameworks of historical knowledge. Actively contesting the related traumas of transplantation, the middle passage, and the fracturing of the collective memory, and drawing actively on a wide range of approaches and perspectives, this collection seeks to reinscribe a material historical consciousness of slavery and its legacies through a strategic interaction between history, subjectivity, and representation. —H. Adlai Murdoch, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Representations Of Child Soldiers In Contemporary African Narratives
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Author : Ademola Adesola
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2024-09-11
Representations Of Child Soldiers In Contemporary African Narratives written by Ademola Adesola and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-09-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Representations of Child Soldiers in Contemporary African Narratives, Ademola Adesola examines the dominant factors that writers privilege in their portrayals of child soldiering in sub-Saharan Africa. In his textual-interpretive analyses of selected novels in the African child soldier genre, Adesola contends that critical discussions of African child soldier literature have depended on the interpretive frameworks supplied by Western humanitarian discourses which oversimplify and de-historicize experiences of war in Africa. The author argues that such reductive decontextualization of war realities serve to champion a narrow vision of war in African contexts centered on a moral and humanitarian urge for Western intervention. Regardless of whether the casus belli legitimating those wars are genuine or not, those conflicts (and children’s involvement in them) are understood within the same racist colonial and ethnocentric stereotypes about Africa that have been privileged in Western thought and the Western moral-political imagination for centuries. Thus, in studying African child soldier narratives, this book provides an alternative reading of novels whose settings feature African ethnopolitical conflicts – such as in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Congo-Brazzaville, Nigeria – notable for their exploitation of children for military ends. The author maintains that these works are significant in the varying ways they reify and challenge the Western ideas of “child” and “childhood,” as well as privilege child soldiers as social actors whose intricate makeups disavow being simply understood as innocent victims or irredeemable perpetrators of atrocities.