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The tongue-tied imagination : decolonizing literary modernity in Senegal
- Title
- The tongue-tied imagination : decolonizing literary modernity in Senegal / Tobias Warner.
- Author
- Warner, Tobias
- Publication
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- ix, 342 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subjects
- Senegalese literature
- Senegalese literature (French)
- Senegal
- Senegalese literature > 21st century > History and criticism
- Postcolonialism in literature
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Senegalese literature (French) > 20th century > History and criticism
- Senegal > Languages > Political aspects
- Senegalese literature > 20th century > History and criticism
- Senegalese literature (French) > 21st century > History and criticism
- 1900-2099
- Language and languages > Political aspects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-330) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 19-872
- ISBN
- 9780823284634
- 0823284638
- 9780823284290
- 0823284298
- LCCN
- 2018059018
- OCLC
- 1048938130
- Author
- Warner, Tobias, author.
- Title
- The tongue-tied imagination : decolonizing literary modernity in Senegal / Tobias Warner.
- Publisher
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-330) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-2099
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 19-872