Colonial Legacies in Francophone African Literature
Regular price
€97.99
14 days return policy
Shipping & Delivery
A01=Mohamed Kamara
African Literature
African Studies
assimilation
Author_Mohamed Kamara
bourgeoisie
Category=DS
Category=JNB
Category=NHTQ
colonial education
colonial legacies
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
evolue
Francophone African Literature
Francophone School
Francophone Studies
invention of bourgeoisie
middle figures
moral conquest
social stratification
transgression
Product details
- ISBN 9781793644442
- Weight: 540g
- Dimensions: 159 x 237mm
- Publication Date: 05 Dec 2023
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Colonial Legacies in Francophone African Literature: The School and the Invention of the Bourgeoisie by Mohamed Kamara examines the representation and lasting impact of the colonial school and bourgeoisie in Francophone sub-Saharan literature. Mohamed Kamara contends that the so-called indigenous colonial bourgeoisie was invented by the colonizer through the school to perpetuate the ideology of the colonizer, and he interrogates the policies and practices of the school and the ways they were informed by discourses of racial difference. While many works, like those authored by Gadjigo and Alessandri, have interrogated the impact of the colonial school on the African individual and society, they do not focus on the relationship between colonial education and the emergence of the African bourgeois and bourgeoise. Accordingly, this book analyzes the various literary strategies used in selected texts to paint a portrait of the school and the class it produced in view of showing the organic relationship between the two. This book adds a fresh perspective on the intimate connection between the school and social transformation in Francophone sub-Saharan Africa. Kamara suggests that the best solution for the continent resides in the continent’s ability to take what is good in its precolonial past and combine it with what makes sense in today’s reality.
Mohamed Kamara is professor of French and Africana studies and chair of the Romance Languages Department at Washington and Lee University.
