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Writing Spatiality in West Africa – Colonial Legacies in the Anglophone/Francophone Novel: African Articulations

Autor Madhu Krishnan
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 apr 2022
From the "imaginative geographies" of conquest identified by Edward Said to the very real and material institution of territorial borders, regions and geographical amalgamations, the control, administration and integration of space are known to have played a central and essential role in the creation of contemporary "Africa". Space continues to be a site of conflict, from separatist struggles to the distribution of resources to the continued absorption ofAfrican territories into the uneven geographies of global capitalism.
In this book, Madhu Krishnan examines the ways in which the anxieties and conflicts engendered by these phenomena are registered in a broad set of literarytexts from British and French West Africa. By placing these novels in dialogue with a range of archival material such as territorial planning documents, legislative papers, records of liberation movements and development projects, this book reveals the submerged articulations between spatial planning and literary expression, generating new readings of canonical West African texts as well as analyses of otherwise under-researched material.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781847013231
ISBN-10: 1847013236
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 157 x 240 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Boydell and Brewer
Seria African Articulations


Cuprins

Introduction Spatiality from Empire to Independence Post-independence Disillusionment and Spatial Closures Social Space Beyond the Public Sphere: Women's Writing and Contested Hegemonies Cosmopolitanism, Migration and Neoliberalism in the Wake of Structural Adjustment Conclusion Bibliography

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Winner of the 2020 ALA Book of the Year Award - ScholarshipExamines the ways in which space and spatial structures have been constituted, contested and re-imagined in Francophone and Anglophone West African literature since the early 1950s.