Subversive Traditions : Reinventing the West African Epic /

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This book conducts an entirely new analysis of West African oral epic and its relevance to contemporary world literature--Provided by publisher.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Repinecz, Jonathon (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Oral tradition in literature.
Oral tradition.
Epic poetry, African.
African fiction (French)
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Tradition orale > Afrique occidentale.
Roman africain (français) > 21e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Tradition orale dans la litterature.
Epic poetry, African > History and criticism.
Oral tradition > Africa, West.
African fiction (French) > 21st century > History and criticism.
West Africa.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Epic and race
  • "This half-Black Iliad": African epic and the racialization of comparative literature
  • The suns of independence: anticolonial heroisms and their limits
  • Epic and thought
  • Against Bakhtin: the African (mis)adventures of "epic and novel"
  • Through Wangrin's looking-glass: the politics of the mirror in the A.O.F
  • Hyperprimitives, buffoons, and other lies: ironic ethnographies from Ouologuem to Kourouma
  • Defiant women, noble slaves, and gays, or, the problem with Wolof virtue
  • Conclusion. Through Lat-Dior's looking-glass: tradition and the postmodern.

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