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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819831803321

Autore

Desai Gaurav Gajanan

Titolo

Subject to colonialism : African self-fashioning and the colonial library / / Gaurav Desai

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham [N.C.], : Duke University Press, 2001

ISBN

1-283-06180-5

9786613061805

0-8223-8021-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Disciplina

301/.096

Soggetti

Anthropology - Africa

Africans - Ethnic identity

Ethnology - Africa - History

Africa Colonial influence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-192) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Dangerous Supplements -- "Race," Rationality, and the Pedagogical Imperative -- Dangerous Liaisons? Frustrated Radicals, Master Professionals -- Colonial Self-Fashioning and the Production of History.

Sommario/riassunto

The discursive construction of Africa under colonialism, with an emphasis on the part played by African writers themselves.