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Singular performances : reinscribing the subject in Francophone African writing / Michael Syrotinski.
Van Pelt Library PQ3980.5 .S97 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Syrotinski, Michael, 1957-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African literature (French)--History and criticism.
- African literature (French).
- Subjectivity in literature.
- Physical Description:
- x, 215 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2002.
- Contents:
- 1 V. Y. Mudimbe, African Philosophy, and the Return of the Subject 11
- 2 The Autobiographical Subject as History-Teller 42
- 3 The Ironic Subject in Bernard Dadie's Travel Writing 66
- 4 Subjectivity, History, and the Cinematic: Ousmane Sembene's Guelwaar and Tierno Monenembo's Cinema 100
- 5 The Gendered Subject of Africa: Mudimbe's Le bel immonde and Shaba deux 122
- 6 Reinscribing the Female African Subject: Veronique Tadjo and Werewere Liking 139
- 7 Ghostwriting: Sony Labou Tansi's Spectrographic Subject 157
- Conclusion: Reprising Francophone African Subjectivity 177.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-207) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0813921449
- 0813921457
- OCLC:
- 49681582
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