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James Currey Writing Spatiality in West Africa: Colonial Legacies in the Anglophone/Francophone Novel: 4 (African Articulations)

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Product Description 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 of African 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 literary texts 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. Review For any critic who has been frustrated by the persistence of old stereotypes about African literatures, however, Krishnan offers an important recasting of the spatial relations organizing discourse around the continent. At a time when academic and popular interest in Africa and its societies grow ever stronger, this reframing of the worldliness of African literatures is no doubt the book's most salient achievement, one on which Africa scholars can draw for many years to come. ― JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL LITERARY INQUIRY . ― AFRICA BOOK LINK Krishnan has published a highly interesting book. It offers a pedagogic approach to researchers, teachers, and students of African literature to grasp an overview of the selected novels by applying their knowledge of history to the themes of the novels with a view to understanding the contemporary issues of West Africa in detail. ― African Studies Quarterly About the Author Madhu Krishnan is a Lecturer in Postcolonial Writing in the Department of English at the University of Bristol, and author of Contemporary African Literature in English: Global Locations, Postcolonial Identifications (2014).

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Brand: James Currey
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 184701190X
Category: Books > Subjects > Literature & Fiction > Historical
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 19 October 2018
Listed Since: 25 April 2018

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