Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität Bayreuth, 2014. Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-413).
Contents:
Secondary sources. Introduction and background -- Ayi Kwei Armah : reconstructing the fragments -- Towards the definition of state, nation and society -- Structure of the text -- Literature review and theoretical framework -- Literature review -- Theoretical approaches -- Post-colonial theory -- Narratology -- Socio-criticism -- National historiography : a (counter-) narration -- History and the power of emplotment -- Interrogating transformation : on the teleology of time -- Towards a post-colonial palimpsest -- Neo-colonial "incestuous" na(rra)tions -- Bodies of history : corporeality and hegemonic discourse of change -- Re-connecting the past : (mis)interpreting traces -- The usable past : myth, history and contestation -- De-constructing the ethics and aesthetics of official culture -- Cultural metaphors of interpellation and interpolation -- Phallic virility and hegemony -- Cultural syncretism and the myth of transcendental power -- Quest for (alter) native society : the donso-ton and the ankh -- Literary expressivity : language and the (de)construction of power -- Writing, reading in extremity : defamiliarization and the de-construction of state (in)humanism in l 'etat honteux -- Language : the organic and the corporal -- The official, the banal and the scatological -- Replicating, duplicating political discourse : diction and contra-diction -- Sony labou tansi : author recovered? -- Ngugi wa thiong'o : the poetics and politics of (re-) naming -- Naming and community -- Baroque nomenclatures : parodying transformations -- Between reality, dream and myth : armah and the quest for moral ideal -- The mundane and the spiritual -- Ast : mythical and human -- On the quest for newness -- Ahmadou Kourouma : representation, politics and performance -- The donsomana performance as critique of transformation -- Performance and narration of violence -- On spaces, spectacles and subversion -- Space and reality -- Public space, the double and the inducement of consent -- Spatiality and visibility -- Space, discourse and intimacy -- Aesthetics of proliferation and parenthetical voices -- Narrative trajectories : visions and re-visions -- Ngugi wa Thiong'o : fictional idealism and political reality -- Ahmadou Kourouma : on the language of change and the change of language -- Sony Labou Tansi : writing beyond frontiers -- Ayi Kwei Armah : reconstructing the fragments -- Conclusion -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources.
Series:
Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung, 0938-7285 ; Band 77
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