Anticolonial form : literary journals at the end of empire / Alexandra Reza.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reza, Alexandra, 1987- author.

Series:

Oxford modern languages and literature monographs.

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford modern languages and literature monographs

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Présence africaine (Paris, France).

Mensagem (Lisbon, Portugal).

Africa--In literature.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Raza examines key literary journals published in French, English, and Portuguese by African writers in Europe in the period of decolonization mainly between 1940 and 1970, to understand how writers understood Empire as a political and cultural structure, and what conceptions of freedom, culture, and society underpinned anti-colonial thinking.

Contents:

Introduction: Journals, decolonization, and a little formalism

PART I A DIALECTIC OF LITERATURE AND POLITICS

1. An articulated journal form

2. Theorising reading, writing and society

3. Multilingual modernism

4. Questions of method

PART II CRACKS AND FRAGMENTS

5. A polyphonic history of articulated negritude

6. Women, work, and multiscalar anticolonialism

7. Redrawing the colonial map

Epilogue: Co-colonialism and the stakes of comparison.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2024.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on December 16, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

0-19-199819-2

0-19-889633-6

0-19-889632-8

OCLC:

1414974927