Georges Ngal's pathbreaking satire Giambatista Viko explores the
vexed relations between metropolitan centers and peripheral former
colonies through its titular antihero, an African professor at an
African studies institute divided between European-focused
cosmopolitans and Afrocentrists. Struggling to write the great
African novel and subject to abuse, Viko realizes he can no longer
separate the African and the European parts of his multilayered,
African francophone culture. Viko's fate is a warning about the
perils of artistic creation in a world where power is not shared.
Part of the wave of African novels of the 1960s and 70s that
grappled with the disenchantments of decolonization, Giambatista
Viko can be read at once as a Congolese novel, a francophone novel,
and a work of world literature.
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