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02063aam a2200385 i 4500 001 76A6FC74FF9A11E9A2D37E2597128E48 003 SILO 005 20191105010136 008 181212s2019 miua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2018059367 020 $a 1611863341 020 $a 9781611863345 035 $a (OCoLC)1080248684 040 $a IEN/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d BDX $d YDX $d OCL $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a fw----- 050 00 $a PL8010.4 R47 2019 100 1 $a Repinecz, Jonathon $e author. 245 10 $a Subversive traditions : $b reinventing the West African epic / $c Jonathon Repinecz. 264 1 $a East Lansing : $b Michigan State University Press, $c [2019] 300 $a xliii, 283 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a African humanities and the arts 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Epic and race -- "This half-Black Iliad": African epic and the racialization of comparative literature -- The suns of independence: anticolonial heroisms and their limits -- Epic and thought -- Against Bakhtin: the African (mis)adventures of "epic and novel" -- Through Wangrin's looking-glass: the politics of the mirror in the A.O.F -- Hyperprimitives, buffoons, and other lies: ironic ethnographies from Ouologuem to Kourouma -- Defiant women, noble slaves, and gays, or, the problem with Wolof virtue -- Conclusion. Through Lat-Dior's looking-glass. 520 $a This book conducts an entirely new analysis of West African oral epic and its relevance to contemporary world literature--Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Epic poetry, African $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Oral tradition $z Africa, West. 650 0 $a African fiction (French) $y 21st century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Oral tradition in literature. 830 0 $a African humanities and the arts 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317015009.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20191204015838.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=76A6FC74FF9A11E9A2D37E2597128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search