Subversive Traditions - Reinventing the West African Epic

About the author

Jonathon Repinecz is an Assistant Professor of French at George Mason University. He also serves as Affiliated Faculty in the Global Affairs Program. A specialist of West African literature, his work has appeared in the Journal of African Cultural Studies, the Journal of African Cinemas, and Critical Multilingualism Studies, as well as a variety of blogs.

Summary

Through readings of documented performances and major writers like Yambo Ouologuem and Amadou Hampâté Bâ of Mali, Ahmadou Kourouma of Ivory Coast, and Aminata Sow Fall and Boubacar Boris Diop of Senegal, this book conducts an entirely new analysis of West African oral epic and its relevance to contemporary world literature.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathon Repinecz
• Publisher: Michigan state university pres
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2019
• EAN: 9781611863345
• ISBN: 978-1-61186-334-5
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: African Humanities and the Art; African Humanities and the Arts
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures