| #3863963 in Books | 1999-01-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.25 x.51 x6.00l,.68 | File type: PDF | 208 pages|||A major and innovative intervention in the ongoing debate on the place of Africa - and African writing - in the shaping of colonial culture, on the relationship between ethnography and the institutions of the novel, and on the historical foundations of postcol
Although postcolonial studies has explored the historical influences and connections among literatures throughout the world, it has considered African writing unique. By looking at African novels―written in both French and English―of the colonial and postcolonial periods, Claiming History places African literature in its proper context within this field. Eleni Coundouriotis shows how historical narration not only "answers back" to Europe's colonialist legacy, ...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Claiming History: Colonialism, Ethnography, and the Novel | Eleni Coundouriotis. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.