Nationalists and Nomads: Essays on Francophone African Literature and Culture

by Christopher L. Miller

Book Overview

How does African literature written in French change the way we think about nationalism, colonialism, and postcolonialism? How does it imagine the encounter between Africans and French? And what does the study of African literature bring to the fields of literary and cultural studies? Christopher L. Miller explores these and other questions in Nationalists and Nomads.

Miller ranges from the beginnings of francophone African literature--which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226528049
• ISBN13: 9780226528045
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"