Pre-colonial Africa in colonial African narratives
Subtitle: from Ethiopia unbound to Things fall apart, 1911-1958
By: Donald R. Wehrs.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754660880
Subjects: African literature -- History and criticism; Colonialism in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Embodied ethical life and the threat of cognitive imperialism in African contexts; title: Hayford, Balewa, and the representation of African culture and society; title: Articulations of empire and hatred of the other man in Hazoumé's Doguicimi; title: History, fable, and syncretism in Fagunwa's Forest of a thousand daemons; title: The ordeal of cognitive imperialism in Tutuola's early fiction; title: Pre-colonial history and anticolonial politics in Achebe's Things fall apart.