The Tongue-Tied Imagination : : Decolonizing Literary Modernity in Senegal / / Tobias Warner.
Should a writer work in a former colonial language or in a vernacular? The language question was one of the great, intractable problems that haunted postcolonial literatures in the twentieth century, but it has since acquired a reputation as a dead end for narrow nationalism. This book returns to th...
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| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Note on orthography and pronunciation
- Introduction: Unwinding the Language Question
- Part I. Colonial Literary Modernity
- 1. The Fetish of Textuality: David Boilat's Notebooks and the Making of a Literary Past
- 2. Para-literary Authorship: Colonial Education and the Uses of Literature
- 3. Toward the Future Reader: Print Networks and the Question of the Audience
- Part II. Decolonization and the Language Question
- 4. Senghor's Grammatology: The Political Imaginaries of Writing African Languages
- 5. Counterpoetics: Translation as Aesthetic Constraint in Sembène's Mandabi and Ndao's Buur Tilleen
- Part III. World Literature, Neoliberalism
- 6. How Mariama Bâ Became World Literature: Translation and the Legibility of Feminist Critique
- 7. Aesthetics After Austerity: Boubacar Boris Diop and the Work of Literature in Neoliberal Senegal
- Epilogue. Out of Time: Decolonization and the Future of World Literature
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index