Blank Darkness Africanist Discourse in French

Name: Blank Darkness Africanist Discourse in French
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ISBN: 9780226526218

ISBN-10: 0226526216

ISBN-13: 9780226526218

Edition: 1986

Authors: Christopher L. Miller

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"Blank Darkness: Africanist Discourse in French is a brilliant and altogether convincing analysis of the way in which Western writers, from Homer to the twentieth century have . . . imposed their language of desire on the least-known part of the world and have called it 'Africa.' There are excellent readings here of writers ranging from Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Sade, and Ceacute;line to Conrad and Yambo Ouologuem, but even more impressive and important than these individual readings is Mr. Miller's wide-ranging, incisive, and exact analysis of 'Africanist' discourse, what it has been and what it has meant in the literature of the Western world."--James Olney, Louisiana State University

Book details

List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/1/1986
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 283
Size: 0.67" wide x 0.91" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface



Introduction



""Telle figure que l'on veut"": Deriving a Discourse A Discourse with Tails Names for a Distance Orientalism and Africa Ambivalence in Antiquity Blameless Ones and Headless Ones The ""Idea"" of Blackness Aniaba and Zaga-Christ Nigri Idolatrae French Priority and French Desire ""Africa,"" Dream and Discourse



Africanist Poetics



Baudelaire in the Nineteenth Century: Black and White in Color Introduction Les Curiositeacute;s estheacute;tiques TheSa