| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 270 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-254) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: engineering history and engineering literature -- Official writers: the engineers of the Congolese soul -- Sony Labou Tansi: commitment, oppositionality, and resistance -- Henri Lopes: collaboration, confession, and testimony -- Emmanuel Dongala: history, memory, and reconciliation -- National conferences and media decentralization in Francophone Africa. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Summary |
What characterizes the relationship between literature and the state? Should literature serve the needs of the state by constructing national consciousness, espousing state propaganda, and molding good citizens? Or should it be dedicated to a different kind of creative social endeavor? In this important book about literature and the politics of nation-building, Dominic Thomas assesses the contributions of Francophone African writers whose works have played a key role in the recent transition to democracy. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
African literature (French) -- History and criticism.
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Nationalism and literature -- Africa, French-speaking.
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Politics and literature -- Africa, French-speaking.
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Propaganda -- Africa, French-speaking.
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African literature (French)
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Nationalism and literature.
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Politics and literature.
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Propaganda.
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African literature (French) -- History and criticis.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
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African literature (French) (OCoLC)fst00799857
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Nationalism and literature. (OCoLC)fst01033884
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Politics and literature. (OCoLC)fst01069960
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Propaganda. (OCoLC)fst01078957
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Africa, French-speaking. (OCoLC)fst01692677
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Literaturproduktion.
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Politik.
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Afrika.
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Französisch.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Thomas, Dominic Richard David. Nation-building, propaganda, and literature in Francophone Africa. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2002 0253341574 (DLC) 2002003703 (OCoLC)49332409 |
| ISBN |
025310954X (electronic bk.) |
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9780253109545 (electronic bk.) |
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