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dc.contributor.authorArens, Sarah
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-30T23:37:08Z
dc.date.available2019-09-30T23:37:08Z
dc.date.issued2018-04-01
dc.identifier.citationArens , S 2018 , ' Narrating the (post)nation? Aspects of the local and the global in Francophone Congolese writing ' , Research in African Literatures , vol. 49 , no. 1 , pp. 22-41 . https://doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.49.1.03en
dc.identifier.issn0034-5210
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 251061522
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 067b4724-d6fa-4987-93db-af1014555850
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-8397-4999/work/62311874
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85050674995
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000438495900003
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/18586
dc.description.abstractThis article investigates postnational(ist) dimensions of late twentieth-century Congolese writing based on Sony Labou Tansi’s novel Les sept solitudes de Lorsa Lopez [The Seven Solitudes of Lorsa Lopez] (1985) and Pie Tshibanda’s Un fou noir au pays des blancs [A Black Fool in the Country of the White] (1999). Adopting Achille Mbembe’s concept of “necropolitics” and the grotesque, it explores the different approaches used to construct localities and globalities through their depictions of the dead and the dying body in these two novels. Widening the focus, this article argues that the ways in which the two novels narrate geographical space are fundamental to the visions of the postcolonial nation they express: their ongoing preoccupation with spatial politics of the former colonizer and the failed nationalist projects after the formal end of European colonialism testify to their call for a more complex perception of postnationalism than often assumed in existing scholarship.
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofResearch in African Literaturesen
dc.rightsCopyright © 2018 The Trustees of Indiana University. This work has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies or with permission. Permission for further reuse of this content should be sought from the publisher or the rights holder. This is the final published version of the work, which was originally published at https://doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.49.1.03en
dc.subjectColonialismen
dc.subjectAfrican literatureen
dc.subjectPostcolonial literatureen
dc.subjectSolitudeen
dc.subjectNationalismen
dc.subjectDeathen
dc.subjectSovereigntyen
dc.subjectNation statesen
dc.subjectNovelsen
dc.subjectP Language and Literatureen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subjectBDCen
dc.subjectR2Cen
dc.subject.lccPen
dc.titleNarrating the (post)nation? : Aspects of the local and the global in Francophone Congolese writingen
dc.typeJournal articleen
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dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Frenchen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.49.1.03
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2019-10-01


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