Writing Spatiality in West Africa: Colonial Legacies in the Anglophone/Francophone Novel

by Madhu Krishnan

Book Overview

Winner of the 2020 ALA Book of the Year Award - Scholarship

Examines the ways in which space and spatial structures have been constituted, contested and re-imagined in Francophone and Anglophone West African literature since the early 1950s.

From the "imaginative geographies" of conquest identified by Edward Said to the very real and material institution of territorial borders, regions and geographical amalgamations, the control, administration...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847013236
• ISBN13: 9781847013231
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: James Currey
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"