Wehrs, Donald R.

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

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African literature--History and criticism
Colonies in literature