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Author Thomas, Dominic Richard David.

Title Nation-building, propaganda, and literature in Francophone Africa / Dominic Thomas
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 270 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: engineering history and engineering literature -- Official writers: the engineers of the Congolese soul -- Sony Labou Tansi: commitment, oppositionality, and resistance -- Henri Lopes: collaboration, confession, and testimony -- Emmanuel Dongala: history, memory, and reconciliation -- National conferences and media decentralization in Francophone Africa
Summary What characterizes the relationship between literature and the state? Should literature serve the needs of the state by constructing national consciousness, espousing state propaganda, and molding good citizens? Or should it be dedicated to a different kind of creative social endeavor? In this important book about literature and the politics of nation-building, Dominic Thomas assesses the contributions of Francophone African writers whose works have played a key role in the recent transition to democracy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-254) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject African literature (French) -- History and criticism
Nationalism and literature -- Africa, French-speaking
Politics and literature -- Africa, French-speaking
Propaganda -- Africa, French-speaking
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
African literature (French)
Nationalism and literature
Politics and literature
Propaganda
Literaturproduktion
Politik
French-speaking Africa
Afrika
Französisch.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 025310954X
9780253109545
0253106443
9780253106445
1282063081
9781282063082
9786612063084
6612063084