Yambo Ouologuem : : Postcolonial Writer, Islamic Militant / / ed. by Christopher Wise.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Appiah, Kwame Anthony,; Chaulet-Achour, Christiane,; Dunton, Chris,; Fatunde, Tunde,; Hale, Thomas A.,; Miller, Christopher L.,; Mohsen, Caroline A.,; Mpiku, J. Mbelolo ya,; Sellin, Eric,; Soyinka, Wole,; Willey, Ann Elizabeth,; Wise, Christopher,
• HerausgeberIn: Wise, Christopher,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2023]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (258 p.)

From the appearance of Bound to Violence in the late 1960s, Yambo Ouologuem has been one of Africa’s most controversial writers. For some critics, the young Malian signaled an entire new direction for African letters: a fiercely courageous postindependence literature. For others, his novel revealed too much, bringing to light horrors many preferred to ignore. Today Ouologuem is credited with delivering the final death-blow to Senghorian negritude, thus clearing the way for a more honest literature divested of the longing for a false African past. This book gathers the most important essays on Ouologuem from critics on three continents. Wise also includes his recent interviews with the reclusive author and a companion essay on Ouologuem’s present life among the Tidjaniya Muslims of northern Mali.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: A Voice from Bandiagara -- Part 1. Swabbing the Deck: African Responses to Ouologuem -- 2. Remarks on Yambo Ouologuem's Le Devoir de violence -- 3. From One Mystification to Another: "Négritude" and "Négraille" in Le Devoir de violence -- 4. Images of Working People in Two African Novels: Ouologuem and Iyayi -- 5. The Representation of Homosexuality in Ouologuem's Le Devoir de violence -- 6. Yambo Ouologuem and the Meaning of Postcoloniality -- Part 2. Decolonizing Writing? Or, Pisse-Copie Aesthetics Reconsidered -- 7. The Unknown Voice of Yambo Ouologuem -- 8. Writing as Exploratory Surgery: Yambo Ouologuem's Bound to Violence -- 9. Trait d'union: Injunction and Dismemberment in Yambo Ouologuem's Le Devoir de violence -- 10. Yambo Ouologuem, Satirist and Pamphleteer: Irony and Revolt in Lettre à la France nègre -- 11. Pornography, or the Politics of Misbehaving? A Feminist Reading of the Voices of Yambo Ouologuem -- Part 3. Historical Reconsiderations: Islamic-Sahelian Influences in Ouologuem's Writings -- 12. Rewriting the Songhay Past in Yambo Ouologuem's Le Devoir de violence -- 13. Qur'anic Hermeneutics, Sufism, and Le Devoir de violence: Yambo Ouologuem as Marabout Novelist -- Part 4. Interviews: Yambo Ouologuem Today -- 14. In Search of Yambo Ouologuem -- 15. Yambo Ouologuem Among the Tidjaniya -- 16. Interview with al-Hajj Sekou Tall -- Bibliography -- The Contributors -- Index -- About the Book