Singular performances : reinscribing the subject in Francophone African writing / Michael Syrotinski.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2002.Description: x, 215 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0813921449 (hard : alk. paper)
  • 0813921457 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 840.9/96 21
LOC classification:
  • PQ3980.5 .S97 2002
Contents:
1. V. Y. Mudimbe, African Philosophy, and the Return of the Subject -- 2. The Autobiographical Subject as History-Teller -- 3. The Ironic Subject in Bernard Dadie's Travel Writing -- 4. Subjectivity, History, and the Cinematic: Ousmane Sembene's Guelwaar and Tierno Monenembo's Cinema -- 5. The Gendered Subject of Africa: Mudimbe's Le bel immonde and Shaba deux -- 6. Reinscribing the Female African Subject: Veronique Tadjo and Werewere Liking -- 7. Ghostwriting: Sony Labou Tansi's Spectrographic Subject -- Conclusion: Reprising Francophone African Subjectivity.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-207) and index.

1. V. Y. Mudimbe, African Philosophy, and the Return of the Subject -- 2. The Autobiographical Subject as History-Teller -- 3. The Ironic Subject in Bernard Dadie's Travel Writing -- 4. Subjectivity, History, and the Cinematic: Ousmane Sembene's Guelwaar and Tierno Monenembo's Cinema -- 5. The Gendered Subject of Africa: Mudimbe's Le bel immonde and Shaba deux -- 6. Reinscribing the Female African Subject: Veronique Tadjo and Werewere Liking -- 7. Ghostwriting: Sony Labou Tansi's Spectrographic Subject -- Conclusion: Reprising Francophone African Subjectivity.

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