African literature and the politics of culture /
This book essentially negotiates African literature as a veritable site of artistic and cultural production and situates it within the dynamic of postcolonial cultural politics. It critically evaluates African literature as a contour of cultural contestation with the imperial politics of knowledge p...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
[2013]
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Colección: | James Tar Tsaaior is an Associate Professor and Chair of the
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | This book essentially negotiates African literature as a veritable site of artistic and cultural production and situates it within the dynamic of postcolonial cultural politics. It critically evaluates African literature as a contour of cultural contestation with the imperial politics of knowledge production about others and as an ideological strategy for knowing them. The book's main contribution to the critical discourse on African literature and culture inheres in the fact that politics constitutes the enduring concern of society as it re/shapes and over-determines discourses which have con. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-211) and index. |
ISBN: | 1306166543 9781306166546 9781443853828 1443853828 |