Claiming history : colonialism, ethnography, and the novel

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Title:

Author:

Coundouriotis, Eleni.

ISBN:

9780231113502

9780231113519

Personal Author:

Coundouriotis, Eleni.

Publication Information:

New York : Columbia University Press, c1999.

Physical Description:

x, 211 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

1. The Traditional Cultures of Rene Maran and Chinua Achebe -- 2. History, Human Sacrifices, and the Victorian Travelers to Dahomey -- 3. Contesting Authenticity: Paul Hazoume, Ethnography, and Negritude -- 4. Resistant History in Paul Hazoume's Doguicimi -- 5. History as Transgression in Le Devoir de violence -- 6. Temporality and the Geographies of the Nation: "The Future Present" in The Famished Road.

Subject Term:

European fiction -- History and criticism.

African fiction (French) -- History and criticism.

African fiction (English) -- History and criticism.

History in literature.

Imperialism in literature.

Geographic Term:

Africa -- In literature.

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Summary

By looking at African novels - in French and English - of both the colonial and postcolonial periods, this text places African literature in its proper context within this field. The author shows how historical narration not only answers back to Europe's colonialist legacy, but also serves as a complex form of dissent among Africans themselves.