| Description |
1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: African interpreters in colonial Senegal -- Interpreter family biographies: biography as history -- Inconspicuous interpreters -- The creation of an indigenous interpreter corps in Saint Louis -- French expansion, commerce, and conquest, 1850s-1880s -- The Mauritanian challenge: "Pacification" and African mediators. |
| Summary |
This book explores the intermediary functions of Muslim interpreters in Senegal to affirm their status as active historical agents in the historiography on French colonial rule in West Africa. Its main themes include the intersection of knowledge and power in a colonial context, Muslim identity formation and French assimilation, accommodation and hegemony, and interpretation and translation as cross-cultural processes. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Translators -- Senegal -- History -- 19th century.
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Translators. |
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Senegal. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Translators -- Senegal -- History -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Translating and interpreting -- Social aspects -- Senegal.
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Translating and interpreting -- Social aspects. |
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Muslims -- Senegal.
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Senegal -- Foreign relations -- France.
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Muslims. |
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International relations. |
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France -- Foreign relations -- Senegal.
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Senegal -- History -- 19th century.
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Senegal -- History -- 20th century.
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France. |
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HISTORY -- Africa -- West. |
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Diplomatic relations. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: M'bayo, Tamba, 1956- author. Muslim interpreters in colonial Senegal, 1850-1920 Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, 2016 9781498509985 (DLC) 2016017796 |
| ISBN |
9781498509992 (electronic) |
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1498509991 |
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9781498509985 (cloth) (alkaline paper) |
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