Subject to Colonialism – African Self–Fashioning and the Colonial Library Desai
Subject to ColonialismAfrican Self-Fashioning and the Colonial Library\nAuthor(s): Gaurav Desai\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Duke University Press, United States\nImprint: Duke University Press\nISBN-13: 9780822326410, 978-0822326410\nSynopsis\nSubject to Colonialism provides a much needed revisionist perspective on the way twentieth-century Africa is viewed and analyzed among scholars. Employing literary, historical, and anthropological techniques, Gaurav Desai attempts to generate a new understanding of issues that permeate discussions of Africa by disrupting the centrality of postcolonial texts and focusing instead on the cultural and intellectual production of colonial Africans. In particular, Desai calls for a reevaluation of the colonial library-that set of representations and texts that have collectively invented Africa as a locus of difference and alterity. \nPresenting colonialism not as a singular, monolithic structure but rather as a practice frought with contradictions .
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