Subversive Traditions: Reinventing the West African Epic
(Part of the African Humanities and the Arts (AHA) Series)
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How can traditions be subversive? The kinship between African traditions and novels has been under debate for the better part of a century, but the conversation has stagnated because of a slowness to question the terms on which it is based: orality vs. writing, tradition vs. modernity, epic vs. novel. These rigid binaries were, in fact, invented by colonialism and cemented by postcolonial identity politics. Thanks to this entrenched paradigm, far...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1611863341
ISBN13:9781611863345
Release Date:October 2019
Publisher:Michigan State University Press
Length:336 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.2" x 8.9"
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