Nation-building, propaganda, and literature in francophone Africa
by Dominic Richard David Thomas
African literature (French)History and criticismNationalism and literaturePolitics and literaturePropagandaLiteraturproduktionHistoire et critiqueLitterature africaine (francʹaise)
The relationship between literature & the state is examined in this discussion of Francophone African literature. Dominic Thomas considers the case of the Congo, where the recent transition to democracy was in part inspired by the works of Sony Labou Tansi, Henri Lopes, & Emmanuel Dongala among others.
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