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Singular Performances: Reinscribing the Subject in Francophone African Writing »

Authors: Michael Syrotinski
ISBN-13: 9780813921457, ISBN-10: 0813921457
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Date Published: November 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Michael Syrotinski

Michael Syrotinski, Reader in French and Francophone Studies at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, is the author of Defying Gravity: Jean Paulhan's Interventions in Twentieth-Century French Intellectual History and coeditor of Sensual Reading: New Approaches to Reading in Its Relations to the Senses.

Book Synopsis

Syrotinski (French and Francophone studies, U. of Aberdeen, Scotland) addresses issues of subjectivity and narrative agency in Francophone African literature. Using the writings of V.Y. Mudimbe as a reference, Syrotinski studies the subject in terms of African philosophy, literary theory, postcolonial studies, film, cultural studies, and history. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	V. Y. Mudimbe, African Philosophy, and the Return of the Subject	11
2	The Autobiographical Subject as History-Teller	41
3	The Ironic Subject in Bernard Dadie's Travel Writing	66
4	Subjectivity, History, and the Cinematic: Ousmane Sembene's Guelwaar and Tierno Monenembo's Cinema	100
5	The Gendered Subject of Africa: Mudimbe's Le bel immonde and Shaba deux	122
6	Reinscribing the Female African Subject: Veronique Tadjo and Werewere Liking	139
7	Ghostwriting: Sony Labou Tansi's Spectrographic Subject	157
	Conclusion: Reprising Francophone African Subjectivity	177
	Notes	183
	Bibliography	197
	Index	209