Pre-colonial Africa in colonial African narratives : from Ethiopia unbound to things fall apart, 1911-1958 /
Donald R. Wehrs
- Aldershot, England : Ashgate, 2008
- xii, 193 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-186) and index
Embodied ethical life and the threat of cognitive imperialism in African contexts -- -- Hayford, Balewa, and the representation of African culture and society -- Articulations of empire and hatred of the other man in Hazoume's Doguicimi -- History, fable, and syncretism in Fagunwa's Forest of a thousand daemons -- The ordeal of cognitive imperialism in Tutuola's early fiction -- Pre-colonial history and anticolonial politics in Achebe's Things fall apart