Theories of Africans
Francophone Literature and Anthropology in Africa
9780226528021
9780226528014
Theories of Africans
Francophone Literature and Anthropology in Africa
"Situating literature and anthropology in mutual interrogation, Miller’s...book actually performs what so many of us only call for. Nowhere have all the crucial issues been brought together with the sort of critical sophistication it displays."—Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
". . . a superb cross-disciplinary analysis."—Y. Mudimbe
". . . a superb cross-disciplinary analysis."—Y. Mudimbe
338 pages | 4 halftones | 6.00 x 9.00 | © 1990
Literature and Literary Criticism: African Languages, General Criticism and Critical Theory
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Reading through Western Eyes
2. Ethnicity and Ethics
3. Orality through Literacy: Mande Verbal Art after the Letter
Appendix: Caste in the Novel
4. L’Enfant noir, Totemism, and Suspended Animism
5. Les Soleils des indépendances and Francophone Dialogue
6. Senegalese Women Writers, Silence, and Letters: Before the Canon’s Roar
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
1. Introduction: Reading through Western Eyes
2. Ethnicity and Ethics
3. Orality through Literacy: Mande Verbal Art after the Letter
Appendix: Caste in the Novel
4. L’Enfant noir, Totemism, and Suspended Animism
5. Les Soleils des indépendances and Francophone Dialogue
6. Senegalese Women Writers, Silence, and Letters: Before the Canon’s Roar
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index