Of Irony and Empire: Islam, the West, and the Transcultural Invention of AfricaState University of New York Press, 2012 M02 1 - 251 páginas Of Irony and Empire is a dynamic, thorough examination of Muslim writers from former European colonies in Africa who have increasingly entered into critical conversations with the metropole. Focusing on the period between World War I and the present, "the age of irony," this book explores the political and symbolic invention of Muslim Africa and its often contradictory representations. Through a critical analysis of irony and resistance in works by writers who come from nomadic areas around the Sahara—Mustapha Tlili (Tunisia), Malika Mokeddem (Algeria), Cheikh Hamidou Kane (Senegal), and Tayeb Salih (Sudan)—Laura Rice offers a fresh perspective that accounts for both the influence of the Western, instrumental imaginary, and the Islamic, holistic one. |
Contenido
| 1 | |
Race Memory and the Lessons of War | 45 |
Reading Cheikh Hamidou Kane | 79 |
Of Home as Heterotopia in Salih Tlili and Mokeddem | 125 |
The Ends of Irony | 175 |
Notes | 197 |
Bibliography | 207 |
| 225 | |
SUNY seriesExplorations in Postcolonial Studies | 241 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Of Irony and Empire: Islam, the West, and the Transcultural Invention of Africa Laura Rice Vista previa limitada - 2008 |
Of Irony and Empire: Islam, the West, and the Transcultural Invention of Africa Laura Rice Sin vista previa disponible - 2007 |
Of Irony and Empire: Islam, the West, and the Transcultural Invention of Africa Laura Rice Sin vista previa disponible - 2007 |
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