Giambatista Viko; or, the Rape of African Discourse
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20th-century African literature
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African discourse
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artistic creation
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Congolese
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decolonization
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
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postcolonial literature
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satire
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- ISBN 9781603295840
- Weight: 111g
- Dimensions: 139 x 213mm
- Publication Date: 23 Mar 2022
- Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Georges Ngal's pathbreaking satire Giambatista Viko explores the vexed relations between metropolitan centers and peripheral former colonies through its titular antihero, an African professor at an African studies institute divided between European-focused cosmopolitans and Afrocentrists. Struggling to write the great African novel and subject to abuse, Viko realizes he can no longer separate the African and the European parts of his multilayered, African francophone culture. Viko's fate is a warning about the perils of artistic creation in a world where power is not shared. Part of the wave of African novels of the 1960s and 70s that grappled with the disenchantments of decolonization, Giambatista Viko can be read at once as a Congolese novel, a francophone novel, and a work of world literature.
