Donald R Wehrs

Pre-Colonial Africa in Colonial African Narratives

From Ethiopia Unbound to Things Fall Apart, 1911-1958

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Produktbeschreibung

Donald Wehrs explores pioneering narrative representations of pre-colonial African history and society in texts by Casely Hayford, Alhaji Sir Abubaker Tafawa Balewa, Paul Hazoumé, D.O. Fagunwa, Amos Tutuola, and Chinua Achebe. By highlighting the role of pre-colonial political economies and articulations of state power on colonial-era considerations of ethical and political issues, his book supplements recent work on the importance of indigenous contexts and discourses in situating colonial-era narratives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9780754660880
• ISBN-10: 0754660885
• Artikelnr.: 44971558

Autorenporträt

Donald R. Wehrs is Associate Professor of English at Auburn University, USA, where he teaches postcolonial studies, comparative literature, and eighteenth-century British literature. He is the author of African Feminist Fiction and Indigenous Values (2001), and his essays on postcolonial, British, and European literature have appeared in Modern Language Notes, New Literary History, Ariel, Modern Philology, College Literature, Studies in English Literature, and English Literary History.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Embodied Ethical Life and the Threat of Cognitive Imperialism in
African Contexts; Chapter 2 Hayford, Balewa, and the Representation of
African Culture and Society; Chapter 3 Articulations of Empire and Hatred
of the Other Man in Hazoumé's Doguicimi; Chapter 4 History, Fable, and
Syncretism in Fagunwa's Forest of a Thousand Daemons; Chapter 5 The Ordeal
of Cognitive Imperialism in Tutuola's Early Fiction; Chapter 6 Pre-Colonial
History and Anticolonial Politics in Achebe's Things Fall Apart;