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Author Cazenave, Odile M. (Odile Marie), 1961-

Title Contemporary Francophone African writers and the burden of commitment / Odile Cazenave and Patricia Célérier.

Publication Info. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 246 pages)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: the burden of commitment -- Enduring commitments -- The practice of memory -- Lifting the burden? Francophone African writers engaging in new aesthetics -- The fashioning of an engaging literature: the publishing industry, the internet, and criticism -- Conclusion. the possibilities of artistic commitment.
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Summary By looking at engagée literature from the recent past, when the francophone African writer was implicitly seen as imparted with a mission, to the present, when such authors usually aspire to be acknowledged primarily for their work as writers, Contemporary Francophone African Writers and the Burden of Commitment addresses the current processes of canonization in contemporary francophone African literature. Odile Cazenave and Patricia Célérier argue that aesthetic as well as political issues are now at the forefront of debates about the African literary canon, as writers and critics increasingly acknowledge the ideology of form. Working across genres but focusing on the novel, the authors take up the question of renewed forms of commitment in this literature. Their selected writers range from Mongo Beti, Ousmane Sembène, and Aminata Sow Fall to Boubacar Boris Diop, Véronique Tadjo, Alain Mabanckou, and Léonora Miano, among others.
Subject African literature (French) -- History and criticism.
Politics and literature -- Africa, French-speaking -- History -- 20th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French.
African literature (French) (OCoLC)fst00799857
Politics and literature. (OCoLC)fst01069960
Africa, French-speaking. (OCoLC)fst01692677
LITERARY CRITICISM / African.
African literature -- History and criticism.
Politics and literature.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Célérier, Patricia, 1956-
Other Form: Print version: Cazenave, Odile M. (Odile Marie), 1961- Contemporary Francophone African writers and the burden of commitment. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011 9780813930954 (DLC) 2010042426 (OCoLC)670248214
ISBN 9780813931159 (electronic bk.)
0813931150 (electronic bk.)
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