Pre-colonial Africa in colonial African narratives : from Ethiopia unbound to Things fall apart, 1911-1958 /
Wehrs, Donald R.
Aldershot ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate,
c2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-186) and index.
Embodied ethical life and the threat of cognitive imperialism in African contexts -- -- Hayford, Balewa, and the representation of African culture and society -- Articulations of empire and hatred of the other man in Hazoumé's Doguicimi -- History, fable, and syncretism in Fagunwa's Forest of a thousand daemons -- The ordeal of cognitive imperialism in Tutuola's early fiction -- Pre-colonial history and anticolonial politics in Achebe's Things fall apart.
African literature
Colonialism in literature.