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- catalog abstract ""Subject to Colonialism provides a 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." "Desai works to historicize the foundation of postcolonialism by decentering both canonical texts and privileged categories of analysis such as race, capitalism, empire, and nation. Reading these texts not merely for the content of their assertions but also for how they were created and received, Desai looks at works such as Jomo Kenyatta's ethnography of the Gikuyu and Akiga Sai's history of the Tiv and makes a particular plea for the canonical recuperation of African women's writing." "Audience: Scholars in African history, literature, and philosophy, postcolonial studies, literary criticism, and anthropology ."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12170985.
- catalog coverage "Africa Colonial influence".
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""Desai works to historicize the foundation of postcolonialism by decentering both canonical texts and privileged categories of analysis such as race, capitalism, empire, and nation. Reading these texts not merely for the content of their assertions but also for how they were created and received, Desai looks at works such as Jomo Kenyatta's ethnography of the Gikuyu and Akiga Sai's history of the Tiv and makes a particular plea for the canonical recuperation of African women's writing." "Audience: Scholars in African history, literature, and philosophy, postcolonial studies, literary criticism, and anthropology ."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""Subject to Colonialism provides a 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."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-192) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Dangerous Supplements -- "Race," Rationality, and the Pedagogical Imperative -- Dangerous Liaisons? Frustrated Radicals, Master Professionals -- Colonial Self-Fashioning and the Production of History.".
- catalog extent "xii, 197 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0822326353".
- catalog identifier "0822326418 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Africa Colonial influence".
- catalog spatial "Africa".
- catalog spatial "Africa.".
- catalog subject "301/.096 21".
- catalog subject "Africans Ethnic identity.".
- catalog subject "Anthropology Africa Bibliography.".
- catalog subject "Anthropology Africa.".
- catalog subject "Ethnology Africa History.".
- catalog subject "Z5113 .D47 2001 GN645".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Dangerous Supplements -- "Race," Rationality, and the Pedagogical Imperative -- Dangerous Liaisons? Frustrated Radicals, Master Professionals -- Colonial Self-Fashioning and the Production of History.".
- catalog title "Subject to colonialism : African self-fashioning and the colonial library / Gaurav Desai.".
- catalog type "text".