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The Tongue-Tied Imagination : Decolonizing Literary Modernity in Senegal /
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...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2019.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 Sembene'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.