Forms of Protest

Name: Forms of Protest
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ISBN: 9780325070902

ISBN-10: 0325070903

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Edition: 2002

Authors: Phyllis Taoua

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European domination and transformation of colonized societies in Africa and the Caribbean has inspired a great deal of writing. Phyllis Taoua propounds a revisionist synthesis of the French colonial project, illustrating how writers from Africa, the Caribbean, and France developed avant-garde programs in dialog with one another. This provocative reassessment of canonical works by Aime Cesaire, Mongo Beti, Sony Labou, and others, deliberately challenges models of cultural freedom predicated on outmoded notions of cultural purity. A focus on avant-gardes and anti-colonialism highlights the antagonism inherent in colonial society, illustrating modes of cross-cultural innovation developed as…

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List price: $130.40
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Heinemann
Publication date: 10/1/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.32" wide x 9.50" long x 0.04" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Phyllis Taoua is Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, Boston University, where she teaches literature and film from Africa, the Caribbean, and France.



Acknowledgments


Note on Translations and Abbreviations


Introduction: Against the Grain



The Interwar Years



Locating the Surrealist Revolution in French Culture


Of Natives and Rebels: Surrealism's Vanguard Primitivism


Michel Leiris's Search for New Skin in L'Afrique fantome



The Emergence of Anti-Colonial Protest in the Imperial Crucible


On Censorship and Surveillance: The Effects of Colonial Repression


Negritude's Necessity



The Postwar Years



French Existentialism and the Ethics of Difference


Perspectives on Engagement and Realism


Africa Abstracted: Albert Camus's La Peste



Anti-Colonialism Redefined


Realism and the Status of an African Perspective


"Africa" Revised: Mongo Beti's Le Pauvre Christ de Bomba



Decolonization and After



France's Imperial Wounds


New Novels and the Demise of Empire


Betrayal in the Tropics: Alain Robbe-Grillet's La Jalousie



Africa's Post-Colonial Predicament


Of Martyrs and Collaborators: Decolonization Derailed


Engendering the Nation: Sony Labou Tansi's L'Etat honteux


Conclusion: Hope


Selected Bibliography


Index