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How does African literature written in French change the way we think about nationalism, colonialism, and postcolonialism? How does it imagine the encounter between Africans and French? And what does the study of African literature bring to the fields of literary and cultural studies? Christopher L. Miller explores these and other questions in Nationalists and Nomads.
Miller ranges from the beginnings of francophone African literature—which he traces not to the 1930s Negritude movement but to the largely unknown, virulently radical writings of Africans in Paris in the 1920s—to the evolving relations between African literature and nationalism in the 1980s and 1990s. Throughout he aims to offset the contemporary emphasis on the postcolonial at the expense of the colonial, arguing that both are equally complex, with powerful ambiguities. Arguing against blanket advocacy of any one model (such as nationalism or hybridity) to explain these ambiguities, Miller instead seeks a form of thought that can read and recognize the realities of both identity and difference.
Miller ranges from the beginnings of francophone African literature—which he traces not to the 1930s Negritude movement but to the largely unknown, virulently radical writings of Africans in Paris in the 1920s—to the evolving relations between African literature and nationalism in the 1980s and 1990s. Throughout he aims to offset the contemporary emphasis on the postcolonial at the expense of the colonial, arguing that both are equally complex, with powerful ambiguities. Arguing against blanket advocacy of any one model (such as nationalism or hybridity) to explain these ambiguities, Miller instead seeks a form of thought that can read and recognize the realities of both identity and difference.
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international colonial exposition, race nègre, des littératures nationales, intercultural literacy, word nègre, signifying regime, reproduction courtesy, des nègres, des métamorphoses, francophone literature, petit nègre, public transcript, anthropological sources, smooth space, ethnographic authority, profound break Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Thousand Plateaus, Mirages de Paris, Lamine Senghor, French West Africa, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Ousmane Socé, United States, Yale University Library, Yale University Audio-Visual Center, African American, Les Trois Volontés de Malic, Tovalou Houénou, Aimé Césaire, Angkor Wat, Communist Party, Les Continents, Les Sociétés, René Maran, Ahmadou Mapaté Diagne, Blaise Diagne, New Guinea, Papa Samba Diop, Sembene Ousmane, Spanish Guinea, Calixthe Beyala New!
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Two principal concerns motivate the essays collected in this volume. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
international colonial exposition, race nègre, des littératures nationales, intercultural literacy, word nègre, signifying regime, reproduction courtesy, des nègres, des métamorphoses, francophone literature, petit nègre, public transcript, anthropological sources, smooth space, ethnographic authority, profound break Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Thousand Plateaus, Mirages de Paris, Lamine Senghor, French West Africa, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Ousmane Socé, United States, Yale University Library, Yale University Audio-Visual Center, African American, Les Trois Volontés de Malic, Tovalou Houénou, Aimé Césaire, Angkor Wat, Communist Party, Les Continents, Les Sociétés, René Maran, Ahmadou Mapaté Diagne, Blaise Diagne, New Guinea, Papa Samba Diop, Sembene Ousmane, Spanish Guinea, Calixthe Beyala New!
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- A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Gilles Deleuze on 31 pages
- The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud on page 74, and Back Matter
- Double Impact: France and Africa in the Age of Imperialism (Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies) by G. Wesley Johnson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Blank Darkness: Africanist Discourse in French by Christopher L. Miller in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Africa and the Disciplines: The Contributions of Research in Africa to the Social Sciences and Humanities by Robert H. Bates in Front Matter, and page 152
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- Black France: Colonialism, Immigration, And Transnationalism (African Expressive Cultures) by Dominic Thomas on 16 pages
- Nation-Building, Propaganda, and Literature in Francophone Africa by Dominic Thomas on page 15, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Singular Performances: Reinscribing the Subject in Francophone African Writing by Michael Syrotinski in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Cambridge Introduction to French Poetry (Cambridge Introductions to Literature) by Mary Lewis Shaw in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century (Politics, History, and Culture) by Gregory Mann in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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