Francophone African writing is often concerned with questions of
subjectivity and narrative agency, and it is this focus Michael
Syrotinski takes as his point of departure in "Singular
Performances." Using the work of V. Y. Mudimbe as a major
theoretical reference, Syrotinski sets up a number of original
dialogues between francophone African literature, African
philosophy, literary theory, postcolonial studies, cinema, cultural
studies, and history to arrive at the notion of a "performative
reinscription of subjectivity."
"Singular Performances" covers a wide range of francophone
African writers, each of whom is read within a broader theoretical
context related to African subjectivity: Mudimbe and the
philosophical subject, Aoua Keita and autobiography, Bernard Dadie
and ethnographic irony, Ousmane Sembene and Tierno Monenembo and
the cinematic imagination, Veronique Tadjo and Werewere Liking and
the female writing subject, and Sony Labou Tansi and the "spectral"
subject.
In this skillful interdisciplinary weaving together of
contemporary theory and literature, the focus on the francophone
African subject allows for a richer appreciation of the texture and
rhetoric of the language of the texts themselves. What emerges from
this study is the subject understood not as a single homogenized
entity but as a plural celebration of singular francophone African
subjectivities.
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