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Title

Representations of African identity in nineteenth and twentieth century francophone literature / by Nancy E. Wardle.

Author

Wardle, Nancy E., 1969-

Publication

2007.

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Description

ix, 272 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Abstract: A study of francophone literature, written by French and by Africans, about Africa's people and territory reveals distinct characteristics regarding literary representations about the Other (who are regarded as not sharing in the author's identity) and the Self (who are regarded as sharing in the author's identity). The earliest novels about Africa in the French language were authored by French men, and the majority of these works are united by the depiction of Africa and its people as Other to the author's European identity and associated values. These representations were instrumental in defining the identity of the African as essentially separate and different from the norm, and their basic concepts about the Other were to remain a prominent influence in the collective imagination of the West for centuries afterward. African literary responses to these assertions in the early to mid twentieth century tended to maintain this division between Africa and Europe but reversed the dichotomies, as African authors assigned positive status to all that was African and denounced the Western civilization that had Othered them. New representational techniques were adopted to reflect Africans as subject of their own discourse and to further distinguish their use of the French language, which had been adopted from the former colonizer.

Subject

• Loti, Pierre, 1850-1923. > Criticism and interpretation
• Fromentin, Eugène, 1820-1876. > Criticism and interpretation
• Bâ, Mariama. > Criticism and interpretation
• Djebar, Assia, 1936-2015. > Criticism and interpretation
• Africans in literature
• Other (Philosophy)
• French literature > 19th century
• French literature > 20th century
• African fiction (French) > 20th century
• Black people > Race identity > In literature

Note

• Abstract.
• Vita.

Thesis (note)

• Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2007.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-272).

Reproduction (note)

• Photocopy.

Call Number

Sc D 10-1362

OCLC

662509429

Author

Wardle, Nancy E., 1969-

Title

Representations of African identity in nineteenth and twentieth century francophone literature / by Nancy E. Wardle.

Imprint

2007.

Thesis

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2007.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-272).

Reproduction

Photocopy. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Dissertation Services, 2007.

Research Call Number

Sc D 10-1362