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Autore |
Rice Laura |
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Titolo |
Of irony and empire : Islam, the West, and the transcultural invention of Africa / / Laura Rice |
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Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2007 |
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ISBN |
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0-7914-7952-8 |
1-4356-2688-5 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (253 p.) |
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Collana |
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SUNY series, explorations in postcolonial studies |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Imperialism in literature |
Irony in literature |
War in literature |
African literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
Islamic literature - Africa - History and criticism |
Africa Intellectual life |
Islamic countries Intellectual life |
Africa Relations Europe |
Europe Relations Africa |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-223) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Prologue : of irony & empire -- African conscripts/European conflicts : race, memory, and the lessons of war -- Ambiguous adventure : reading Cheikh Hamidou Kane -- Heimlich un-Heimlich : of home as heterotopia in Salih, Tlili, and Mokeddem -- Epilogue : the ends of irony. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Of Irony and Empire is a dynamic, thorough examination of Muslim writers from former European colonies in Africa who have increasingly entered into critical conversations with the metropole. Focusing on the period between World War I and the present, "the age of irony," this book explores the political and symbolic invention of Muslim Africa and its often contradictory representations. Through a critical analysis of irony and resistance in works by writers who come from nomadic areas around the Sahara—Mustapha Tlili (Tunisia), Malika Mokeddem |
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(Algeria), Cheikh Hamidou Kane (Senegal), and Tayeb Salih (Sudan)—Laura Rice offers a fresh perspective that accounts for both the influence of the Western, instrumental imaginary, and the Islamic, holistic one. |
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