The tongue-tied imagination : decolonizing literary modernity in Senegal /
Tobias Warner.
Bok Engelsk 2019
| Omfang | ix, 342 pages : : illustrations ;
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| Utgave | First edition.
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| Opplysninger | Colonial literary modernity -- The fetish of textuality: David Boilat's notebooks and the making of a literary past -- Para-literary authorship: colonial education and the uses of literature -- Toward the future reader: print networks and the question of the audience -- Decolonization and the language question -- Senghor's grammatology: the political imaginaries of writing African languages -- Counterpoetics: translation as aesthetic constraint in Sembène's Mandabi and Ndao's Buur Tilleen -- World literature, neoliberalism -- How Mariama Bâ became world literature: translation and the legibility of feminist critique -- Aesthetics after austerity: Boubacar Boris Diop and the work of literature in neoliberal Senegal -- Epilogue. out of time: decolonization and the future of world literature.. - Should a writer work in a former colonial language or in a vernacular? The language question was one of the great intractable problems that haunted postcolonial literatures in the twentieth century. But instead of asking whether language matters, The Tongue-Tied Imagination explores how the language question itself came to matter--Provided by publisher.
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| ISBN | 9780823284290. - 9780823284634
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