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04576aam a2200493 i 4500 001 D30A3692E55311E7AFB0C42A97128E48 003 SILO 005 20171220010225 008 170202s2017 gw b 000 0 eng c 020 $a 3643908423 020 $a 9783643908421 035 $a (OCoLC)976443678 040 $a YUS $b eng $e rda $c YUS $d INU $d OCLCA $d OCLCF $d STF $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a f------ 050 14 $a PQ3984 $b .N35 2017 082 04 $a 843.00996 $2 23 100 1 $a Ndi, Gilbert Shang, $d 1982- $e author. 245 10 $a State/society : $b narrating transformations in selected African novels / $c Gilbert Shang Ndi. 246 30 $a Narrating transformations in selected African novels 264 1 $a Berlin : $b Lit, $c [2017] 300 $a xi, 413 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a BeitraÌge zur Afrikaforschung, $x 0938-7285 ; $v Band 77 500 $a Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--UniversitaÌt Bayreuth, 2014. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-413). 505 00 $g Secondary sources. $g Introduction and background -- $t Ayi Kwei Armah : reconstructing the fragments -- $t Towards the definition of state, nation and society -- $t Structure of the text -- $t Literature review and theoretical framework -- $t Literature review -- $t Theoretical approaches -- $t Post-colonial theory -- $t Narratology -- $t Socio-criticism -- $t National historiography : a (counter-) narration -- $t History and the power of emplotment -- $t Interrogating transformation : on the teleology of time -- $t Towards a post-colonial palimpsest -- $t Neo-colonial "incestuous" na(rra)tions -- $t Bodies of history : corporeality and hegemonic discourse of change -- $t Re-connecting the past : (mis)interpreting traces -- $t The usable past : myth, history and contestation -- $t De-constructing the ethics and aesthetics of official culture -- $t Cultural metaphors of interpellation and interpolation -- $t Phallic virility and hegemony -- $t Cultural syncretism and the myth of transcendental power -- $t Quest for (alter) native society : the donso-ton and the ankh -- $t Literary expressivity : language and the (de)construction of power -- $t Writing, reading in extremity : defamiliarization and the de-construction of state (in)humanism in l 'etat honteux -- $t Language : the organic and the corporal -- $t The official, the banal and the scatological -- $t Replicating, duplicating political discourse : diction and contra-diction -- $t Sony labou tansi : author recovered? -- $t Ngugi wa thiong'o : the poetics and politics of (re-) naming -- $t Naming and community -- $t Baroque nomenclatures : parodying transformations -- $t Between reality, dream and myth : armah and the quest for moral ideal -- $t The mundane and the spiritual -- $t Ast : mythical and human -- $t On the quest for newness -- $t Ahmadou Kourouma : representation, politics and performance -- $t The donsomana performance as critique of transformation -- $t Performance and narration of violence -- $t On spaces, spectacles and subversion -- $t Space and reality -- $t Public space, the double and the inducement of consent -- $t Spatiality and visibility -- $t Space, discourse and intimacy -- $t Aesthetics of proliferation and parenthetical voices -- $t Narrative trajectories : visions and re-visions -- $t Ngugi wa Thiong'o : fictional idealism and political reality -- $t Ahmadou Kourouma : on the language of change and the change of language -- $t Sony Labou Tansi : writing beyond frontiers -- $t Ayi Kwei Armah : reconstructing the fragments -- $g Conclusion -- $g References -- $g Primary sources -- $g Secondary sources. 650 0 $a African fiction (French) $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a African fiction (English) $x History and criticism. 651 0 $a Africa $x In literature. 650 0 $a Social history in literature. 650 0 $a Politics in literature. 650 0 $a Postcolonialism in literature. 650 7 $a African fiction (English) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799780 650 7 $a African fiction (French) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799785 650 7 $a Literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00999953 650 7 $a Politics in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01896084 650 7 $a Postcolonialism in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01073035 650 7 $a Social history in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01122521 651 7 $a Africa. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01239509 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 830 0 $a BeitraÌge zur Afrikaforschung ; $v Bd. 77. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180710091100.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D30A3692E55311E7AFB0C42A97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search