Theories of Africans: Francophone Literature and Anthropology in Africa

by Christopher L. Miller

Overview

"Situating literature and anthropology in mutual interrogation, Miller's...book actually performs what so many of us only call for. Nowhere have all the crucial issues been brought together with the sort of critical sophistication it displays."--Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

". . . a superb cross-disciplinary analysis."--Y. Mudimbe

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226528021
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	09/24/1993
Series:	Black Literature and Culture
Edition description:	1
Pages:	338
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Christopher L. Miller is professor in the Department of French and the Program in African and African-American Studies at Yale University. He is the author of Blank Darkness: Africanist Discourse in French, published by the University of Chicago Press.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Reading through Western Eyes
2. Ethnicity and Ethics
3. Orality through Literacy: Mande Verbal Art after the Letter
Appendix: Caste in the Novel
4. L'Enfant noir, Totemism, and Suspended Animism
5. Les Soleils des indépendances and Francophone Dialogue
6. Senegalese Women Writers, Silence, and Letters: Before the Canon's Roar
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index