We can identify a long autobiographical practice in Africa, if we go back to the Confessions of St. Augustine, and selfwriting has moreover developed in African languages, in pre-colonial and colonial times. At the initiative of anthropologists and Africanists, the first African autobiographies (often written by teachers or students) were collected, while autobiographical writing simultaneously emerged in the French African novel. With the anti-colonial struggle, memoirs were written by leading African politicians, which emphasized the reflexive dimension of African selfwritings. In the postcolonial era, autobiography tends to become more intellectual, oscillating between autobiographical and self-analytic projects. Through a predominantly ...
textThis dissertation is a comparative study of Francophone autobiographical writing in Africa and ...
This important book explores the plurality of identities (or better, their polyphony) at work in Lus...
La question de la construction de l’identité culturelle est envisagée ici à partir d’œuvres de la li...
We can identify a long autobiographical practice in Africa, if we go back to the Confessions of St. ...
On peut identifier une longue pratique autobiographique en Afrique, si l’on remonte aux Confessions ...
Depuis les Confessions de Saint Augustin, on peut identifier une longue pratique autobiographique en...
How to write and say Africa in the twenty-first century, in an era called "world literature"? This q...
L'importance de la conscience collective dans les sociétés africaines a souvent été considérée comme...
Achille Mbembe’s article “African Modes of Self-Writing” (2001), which is a precursor to his book O...
International audienceAfrica has experienced the black slave trade, colonisation, independence and g...
L’auteure offre un texte qui souligne l’édification du discours féministe dans l’Afrique francophone...
The history of Francophone African literature is marked by the quest for difference, originality, an...
Faire une archéologie de soi dans la littérature afro-antillaise revient à relever et interroger les...
Comment se penser Africain au XXIe siècle, tout en étant à la fois héritier d’une histoire travestie...
My research bridges the gap between Anglophone postcolonial studies and Francophone literary studies...
textThis dissertation is a comparative study of Francophone autobiographical writing in Africa and ...
This important book explores the plurality of identities (or better, their polyphony) at work in Lus...
La question de la construction de l’identité culturelle est envisagée ici à partir d’œuvres de la li...
We can identify a long autobiographical practice in Africa, if we go back to the Confessions of St. ...
On peut identifier une longue pratique autobiographique en Afrique, si l’on remonte aux Confessions ...
Depuis les Confessions de Saint Augustin, on peut identifier une longue pratique autobiographique en...
How to write and say Africa in the twenty-first century, in an era called "world literature"? This q...
L'importance de la conscience collective dans les sociétés africaines a souvent été considérée comme...
Achille Mbembe’s article “African Modes of Self-Writing” (2001), which is a precursor to his book O...
International audienceAfrica has experienced the black slave trade, colonisation, independence and g...
L’auteure offre un texte qui souligne l’édification du discours féministe dans l’Afrique francophone...
The history of Francophone African literature is marked by the quest for difference, originality, an...
Faire une archéologie de soi dans la littérature afro-antillaise revient à relever et interroger les...
Comment se penser Africain au XXIe siècle, tout en étant à la fois héritier d’une histoire travestie...
My research bridges the gap between Anglophone postcolonial studies and Francophone literary studies...
textThis dissertation is a comparative study of Francophone autobiographical writing in Africa and ...
This important book explores the plurality of identities (or better, their polyphony) at work in Lus...
La question de la construction de l’identité culturelle est envisagée ici à partir d’œuvres de la li...