| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 159 pages) |
| Contents |
Preface / Alexie Tcheuyap -- Introduction / Alix Mazuet and Lifongo Vitende -- Tradition, Modernity, and the Third Term of Binary Oppositions in Ken Bugal's Riwan ou le chemin de sable / Alix Mazuet -- Power and the Aesthetic of the Novel in Francophone Africa: The Example of Ahmadou Kourouma / Etienne-Marie Lassi, translated by Jeff Fuller -- Tragedy, Power and Gender in Fanta Régina Nacro's La Nuit de la vérité / Catherine Webster -- Costume et pouvoir: la fonction commitatoire de vêtement dans la politique post-coloniale en Afrique / Benjamin Ngong -- Spaces of Power in Academic Cultures / Alix Mazuet -- Contributors -- Index |
| Summary |
This collection of essays is unlike others in the field of African studies, for it is based on three very precisely delineated focal points: a particular geographical region, the sub-Sahara; specific modes of cultural production, literature and cinema; a concentration on works of French expression. This three-fold approach to exploring the relationships between power and culture in a non-Western environment greatly contributes to making this book unique from a variety of perspectives: African .. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English; preface and chapter four in French |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
African literature (French) -- History and criticism
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Motion pictures -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Postcolonialism -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Power (Philosophy) in literature.
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Clothing and dress -- Social aspects -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Film theory & criticism.
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Literary studies: post-colonial literature.
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Colonialism & imperialism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
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African literature (French)
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Civilization
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Clothing and dress -- Social aspects
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Motion pictures
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Postcolonialism
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Power (Philosophy) in literature
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Film
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Literatur
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Macht Motiv
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| SUBJECT |
Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001668
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| Subject |
Sub-Saharan Africa
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Subsaharisches Afrika
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mazuet, Alix, 1960-
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| LC no. |
2012515671 |
| ISBN |
1443839469 |
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9781443839464 |
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1299645909 |
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9781299645905 |
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