Colonial Legacies in Francophone African Literature - The School and the Invention of the Bourgeoisie

This book analyzes the representation and lasting impact of the colonial school and bourgeoise in Francophone sub-Saharan literature. Contending that the so-called indigenous colonial bourgeoisie was invented by the colonizer through the school, Kamara interrogates the policie...

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Colonialism, Colonial Education, and the Invention of a Subaltern Class
Chapter 1: Pedagogy of the Colonized: Theories, Ideologies, and Policies of the Colonial School in Francophone Black Africa
Chapter 2: From Theory to Practice: The Colonial School in Francophone African Literature
Chapter 3: Making Good Wives and Good Mothers: The Education of Women in Colonial West Africa
Chapter 4: When Slaves, Bastards, and Dogs Rule: The Colonial School as Agent of Social Transformation
Chapter 5: The Colonial School and the Emergence of New African Types
Chapter 6: Reality or Invention? Literary Representation of the Bourgeoisie on Trial
Conclusion: A Literature of Failure
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

By Mohamed Kamara

Product details

• Authors: Mohamed Kamara
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781793644442
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-444-2
• No. of pages: 258
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; French, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, EDUCATION / History, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, Colonialism & imperialism, History of Education, Literature: history & criticism, Colonialism and imperialism, Literature: history and criticism, Sub-Saharan Africa