Title The tongue-tied imagination : decolonizing literary modernity in Senegal / Tobias Warner.

Publication Info.	New York : Fordham University Press, 2019.
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Edition	First edition.
Description	1 online resource
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Colonial literary modernity -- The fetish of textuality: David Boilat's notebooks and the making of a literary past -- Para-literary authorship: colonial education and the uses of literature -- Toward the future reader: print networks and the question of the audience -- Decolonization and the language question -- Senghor's grammatology: the political imaginaries of writing African languages -- Counterpoetics: translation as aesthetic constraint in Sembene's Mandabi and Ndao's Buur Tilleen -- World literature, neoliberalism -- How Mariama Bâ became world literature: translation and the legibility of feminist critique -- Aesthetics after austerity: Boubacar Boris Diop and the work of literature in neoliberal Senegal -- Epilogue. out of time: decolonization and the future of world literature.
Summary	Should a writer work in a former colonial language or in a vernacular? The language question was one of the great intractable problems that haunted postcolonial literatures in the twentieth century. But instead of asking whether language matters, The Tongue-Tied Imagination explores how the language question itself came to matter--Provided by publisher.
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Subject	Postcolonialism in literature.
	Postcolonialism in literature.
	Senegalese literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
	Senegalese literature.
Chronological Term	21st century
Subject	Senegalese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Senegalese literature (French) -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
	Senegalese literature (French) -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	Senegal -- Languages -- Political aspects.
	Senegalese literature (French)
	Language and languages.
	Senegal.
	LITERARY CRITICISM -- African.
	Language and languages -- Political aspects.
Chronological Term	1900-2099
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Title	Decolonizing literary modernity in Senegal
Other Form:	Print version: Warner, Tobias. Tongue-tied imagination. First edition. New York : Fordham University Press, 2019 (DLC) 2018059018
ISBN	9780823284313 (electronic book)
	082328431X (electronic book)
	9780823284634 (hardcover alkaline paper)
	9780823284290 (paperback alkaline paper)
	0823284638
	0823284298

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