Nation Without Narration

Author : Ramon A. Fonkoué
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Cameroon
ISBN : 1621964825

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"This book traces the roots of the current turmoil and sheds light on overlooked factors impacting nation building in post-colonial Cameroon. It demonstrates the urgency of cross-disciplinary work on African societies and the continued relevance of postcolonial criticism as a theoretical framework. It extends the postcolonial critique inaugurated by Homi Bhabha's Nation and Narration into twenty-first-century sub-Saharan Africa. It also reframes the question of modernity and development in this context, suggesting an approach with bearing on people's lived experience. This study draws from a diversity of fields-political science, literature, history, cultural studies, and postcolonial studies-to demonstrate the limitations of a philosophy of nation building that turned into state consolidation. It is a timely study on Cameroon's currently volatile situation that is applicable to other postcolonial contexts, in Africa and elsewhere"--

Author : Ramon A. Fonkoue
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1621964817

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Author : Ramon A. Fonkoué
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Cameroon
ISBN : 1604979666

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The 2010 decade marked the 50th anniversary of decolonization and independence across the African continent. Cameroonians celebrated in chorus and pomp the historical threshold, but the memory of Cameroon's historical resistance to colonial rule continues to remain unsettled. Cameroon's silence on its troubled recent past and the lack of reflection on the role of collective memory and history in nation building are puzzling. Moreover, there has not been any rigorous assessment of the road traveled since its independence. The nation-state on the continent emerged in a particular context, which saw the euphoria of independence dashed by "developmentalism," a conception of nation building that was repressive, both in the intellectual and the political sense. As a result, the elites of independent Cameroon negated the legacy of the struggles that led to the end of colonial occupation, setting the country on a forced march toward progress and modernity. The discourse, praxis and outcomes of this approach to nation building are the focus of this study. This book traces the roots of the current turmoil and sheds light on overlooked factors impacting nation building in post-colonial Cameroon. It demonstrates the urgency of cross-disciplinary work on African societies and the continued relevance of postcolonial criticism as a theoretical framework. It extends the postcolonial critique inaugurated by Homi Bhabha's Nation and Narration into twenty-first-century sub-Saharan Africa. It also reframes the question of modernity and development in this context, suggesting an approach with a bearing on people's lived experience. This interdisplinary study draws from a number of fields--political science, literature, history, cultural studies, and postcolonial studies--to demonstrate the limitations of a philosophy of nation building that turned into state consolidation. It is a timely study on Cameroon's current volatile situation that is applicable to other postcolonial contexts, in Africa and elsewhere.

Author : Homi K. Bhabha
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136769306

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Nation and Narration by Homi K. Bhabha Pdf

Bhabha, in his preface, writes 'Nations, like narratives, lose their origins in the myths of time and only fully encounter their horizons in the mind's eye'. From this seemingly impossibly metaphorical beginning, this volume confronts the realities of the concept of nationhood as it is lived and the profound ambivalence of language as it is written. From Gillian Beer's reading of Virginia Woolf, Rachel Bowlby's cultural history of Uncle Tom's Cabin and Francis Mulhern's study of Leaviste's 'English ethics'; to Doris Sommer's study of the 'magical realism' of Latin American fiction and Sneja Gunew's analysis of Australian writing, Nation and Narration is a celebration of the fact that English is no longer an English national consciousness, which is not nationalist, but is the only thing that will give us an international dimension.

Author : Homi K Bhabha
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135079086

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Nation & Narration by Homi K Bhabha Pdf

Bhabha, in his preface, writes 'Nations, like narratives, lose their origins in the myths of time and only fully encounter their horizons in the mind's eye'. From this seemingly impossibly metaphorical beginning, this volume confronts the realities of the concept of nationhood as it is lived and the profound ambivalence of language as it is written. From Gillian Beer's reading of Virginia Woolf, Rachel Bowlby's cultural history of Uncle Tom's Cabin and Francis Mulhern's study of Leaviste's 'English ethics'; to Doris Sommer's study of the 'magical realism' of Latin American fiction and Sneja Gunew's analysis of Australian writing, Nation and Narration is a celebration of the fact that English is no longer an English national consciousness, which is not nationalist, but is the only thing that will give us an international dimension.

Author : Homi K. Bhabha
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136769313

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Nation and Narration by Homi K. Bhabha Pdf

Bhabha, in his preface, writes 'Nations, like narratives, lose their origins in the myths of time and only fully encounter their horizons in the mind's eye'. From this seemingly impossibly metaphorical beginning, this volume confronts the realities of the concept of nationhood as it is lived and the profound ambivalence of language as it is written. From Gillian Beer's reading of Virginia Woolf, Rachel Bowlby's cultural history of Uncle Tom's Cabin and Francis Mulhern's study of Leaviste's 'English ethics'; to Doris Sommer's study of the 'magical realism' of Latin American fiction and Sneja Gunew's analysis of Australian writing, Nation and Narration is a celebration of the fact that English is no longer an English national consciousness, which is not nationalist, but is the only thing that will give us an international dimension.

Author : Stefan Berger,Linas Eriksonas,Andrew Mycock
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845458652

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Narrating the Nation by Stefan Berger,Linas Eriksonas,Andrew Mycock Pdf

A sustained and systematic study of the construction, erosion and reconstruction of national histories across a wide variety of states is highly topical and extremely relevant in the context of the accelerating processes of Europeanization and globalization. However, as demonstrated in this volume, histories have not, of course, only been written by professional historians. Drawing on studies from a number of different European nation states, the contributors to this volume present a systematic exploration, of the representation of the national paradigm. In doing so, they contextualize the European experience in a more global framework by providing comparative perspectives on the national histories in the Far East and North America. As such, they expose the complex variables and diverse actors that lie behind the narration of a nation.

Author : Uzodinma Iweala
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061844546

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Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala Pdf

“Remarkable. . . . Iweala never wavers from a gripping, pulsing narrative voice. . . . He captures the horror of ethnic violence in all its brutality and the vulnerability of youth in all its innocence.” —Entertainment Weekly (A) The harrowing, utterly original debut novel by Uzodinma Iweala about the life of a child soldier in a war-torn African country As civil war rages in an unnamed West-African nation, Agu, the school-aged protagonist of this stunning novel, is recruited into a unit of guerilla fighters. Haunted by his father’s own death at the hands of militants, which he fled just before witnessing, Agu is vulnerable to the dangerous yet paternal nature of his new commander. While the war rages on, Agu becomes increasingly divorced from the life he had known before the conflict started—a life of school friends, church services, and time with his family, still intact. As he vividly recalls these sunnier times, his daily reality continues to spin further downward into inexplicable brutality, primal fear, and loss of selfhood. In a powerful, strikingly original voice, Uzodinma Iweala leads the reader through the random travels, betrayals, and violence that mark Agu’s new community. Electrifying and engrossing, Beasts of No Nation announces the arrival of an extraordinary writer.

Author : Anna Bernard
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781385739

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Rhetorics of Belonging by Anna Bernard Pdf

Rhetorics of Belonging describes the formation and operation of a category of Palestinian and Israeli “world literature” whose authors actively respond to the expectation that their work will “narrate” the nation, invigorating critical debates about the political and artistic value of national narration as a literary practice.

Author : Colin Riordan
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0947623256

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The Ethics of Narration by Colin Riordan Pdf

Author : Elleke Boehmer
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0719068789

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Stories of Women by Elleke Boehmer Pdf

This text combines Boehmer's keynote essays on the mother figure and the postcolonial nation, with incisive new work on male autobiography, 'daughter' writers, the colonial body, the trauma of the post-colony, and the nation in a transnational context.

Author : Ebenezer Obadare,Wale Adebanwi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317985532

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Nigeria at Fifty by Ebenezer Obadare,Wale Adebanwi Pdf

Nigeria, Africa’s most populous and biggest democracy, celebrates her fiftieth year as an independent nation in October 2010. As the cliché states, ‘As Nigeria goes, so goes Africa’. This book frames the socio-historical and political trajectory of Nigeria while examining the many dimensions of the critical choices that she has made as an independent nation. How does the social composition of interest and power illuminate the actualities and narratives of the Nigerian crisis? How have the choices made by Nigerian leaders structured, and/or have been structured by, the character of the Nigerian state and state-society relations? In what ways is Nigeria’s mono-product, debt-ridden, dependent economy fed by ‘the politics of plunder’? And what are the implications of these questions for the structural relationships of production, reproduction and consumption? This book confronts these questions by making state-centric approaches to understanding African countries speak to relevant social theories that pluralize and complicate our understanding of the specific challenges of a prototypical postcolonial state. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies.

Author : Stefan Berger,Linas Eriksonas,Andrew Mycock
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 1845454243

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Narrating the Nation by Stefan Berger,Linas Eriksonas,Andrew Mycock Pdf

A sustained and systematic study of the construction, erosion and reconstruction of national histories across a wide variety of states is highly topical and extremely relevant in the context of the accelerating processes of Europeanization and globalization. However, as demonstrated in this volume, histories have not, of course, only been written by professional historians. Drawing on studies from a number of different European nation states, the contributors to this volume present a systematic exploration, of the representation of the national paradigm. In doing so, they contextualize the European experience in a more global framework by providing comparative perspectives on the national histories in the Far East and North America. As such, they expose the complex variables and diverse actors that lie behind the narration of a nation.

Author : K. Pitt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230115347

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Body, Nation, and Narrative in the Americas by K. Pitt Pdf

This book contextualizes 21st century representations of disappearance, torture, and detention within a historical framework of inter-American narratives. Examining a range of sources, Pitt finds a persistent focus on the body that links contemporary practices of political terror to concerns about corporality and sovereignty.

Author : Priyamvada Gopal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199544370

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The Indian English Novel by Priyamvada Gopal Pdf

The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English. It is often claimed that unlike the British novel or the novel in indigenous Indian languages, Anglophone fiction in India has no genealogy of its own. Interrogating this received idea, Priyamvada Gopal shows how the English-language or Anglophone Indian novel is a heterogeneous body of fiction in which certain dominant trends and recurrent themes are, nevertheless, discernible. It is a genre that has been distinguished from its inception by a preoccupation with both history and nation as these come together to shape what scholars have termed 'the idea of India'. Structured around themes such as 'Gandhi and Fiction', 'The Bombay Novel', and 'The Novel of Partition', this study traces lines of influence across significant literary works and situates individual writers and texts in their historical context. Its emergence out of the colonial encounter and nation-formation has impelled the Anglophone novel to return repeatedly to the question: 'What is India?' In the most significant works of Anglophone fiction, 'India' emerges not just as a theme but as a point of debate, reflection, and contestation. Writers whose works are considered in their context include Rabindranath Tagore, Mulk Raj Anand, RK Narayan, Salman Rushdie, Nayantara Sahgal, Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy, and Vikram Seth.