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Writing Spatiality in West Africa - Colonial Legacies in the Anglophone/Francophone Novel (Paperback)
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Writing Spatiality in West Africa - Colonial Legacies in the Anglophone/Francophone Novel (Paperback)
Series: African Articulations
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Loot Price R547
Discovery Miles 5 470
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PAPERBACK FOR SALE IN AFRICA ONLY Examines the ways in which space
and spatial structures have been constituted, contested and
re-imagined in Francophone and Anglophone West African literature
since the early 1950s. From the "imaginative geographies" of
conquest identified by Edward Said to the very real and material
institution of territorial borders, regions and geographical
amalgamations, the control, administration and integration of space
are known to have played a central and essential role in the
creation of contemporary "Africa". Space continues to be a site of
conflict, from separatist struggles to the distribution of
resources to the continued absorption ofAfrican territories into
the uneven geographies of global capitalism. In this book, Madhu
Krishnan examines the ways in which the anxieties and conflicts
engendered by these phenomena are registered in a broad set of
literarytexts from British and French West Africa. By placing these
novels in dialogue with a range of archival material such as
territorial planning documents, legislative papers, records of
liberation movements and development projects, this book reveals
the submerged articulations between spatial planning and literary
expression, generating new readings of canonical West African texts
as well as analyses of otherwise under-researched material.
MadhuKrishnan is a Senior Lecturer in 20th/21st Century
Postcolonial Writing in the Department of English at the University
of Bristol. She is author of Contemporary African Literature in
English: Global Locations, Postcolonial Identifications(2014) and
Contingent Canons: African Literature and the Politics of Location
(2018)
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