Tobias Warner

The Tongue-Tied Imagination

Decolonizing Literary Modernity in Senegal

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Produktbeschreibung

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 instead of asking whether language matters, The Tongue-Tied Imagination explores how the language question itself came to matter. Focusing on Senegal, Warner draws on extensive archival research and an understudied corpus of novels, poetry, and films in both French and Wolof, as well as educational projects and popular periodicals. In tracing the politics of language from colonization through independence to the era of neoliberal development, Warner reveals language debates as a site from which to rethink the terms of world literature and chart a renewed practice of literary comparison.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9780823284290
• ISBN-10: 0823284298
• Artikelnr.: 53533414

Autorenporträt

Tobias Warner is Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California, Davis.

Inhaltsangabe

Note on Orthography and Pronunciation, ix
Introduction: Unwinding the Language Question, 1
Part I Colonial Literary Modernity
1. The Fetish of Textuality: David Boilat's Notebooks and the Making of a
Literary Past, 33
2. Para-literary Authorship: Colonial Education and the Uses of Literature,
51
3. Toward the Future Reader: Print Networks and the Question of the
Audience, 96
Part II Decolonization and the Language Question
4. Senghor's Grammatology: The Political Imaginaries of Writing African
Languages, 123
5. Counterpoetics: Translation as Aesthetic Constraint in Sembène's Mandabi
and Ndao's Buur Tilleen, 152
Part III World Literature, Neoliberalism
6. How Mariama Bâ Became World Literature: Translation and the Legibility
of Feminist Critique, 181
7. Aesthetics After Austerity: Boubacar Boris Diop and the Work of
Literature in Neoliberal Senegal, 203
Epilogue. Out of Time: Decolonization and the Future of World Literature,
233
Acknowledgments, 243
Notes, 247
Bibliography, 303
Index, 331