- Description
- 1 online resource (ix, 342 pages) : illustrations.
- 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.
- Uniform Title
- Tongue-tied imagination (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Tongue-tied imagination (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-330) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2018059018
- OCLC
- ssj0002092520
- Author
Warner, Tobias.
- Title
The tongue-tied imagination [electronic resource] : decolonizing literary modernity in Senegal / Tobias Warner.
- Imprint
New York : Fordham University Press, 2019.
- Edition
First edition.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-330) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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