TY  - GEN
AU  - Krishnan, Madhu.
AU  - Newell, Stephanie.
AU  - Primorac, Ranka.
TI  - Writing spatiality in West Africa : : colonial legacies in the anglophone/francophone novel 
SN  - 9781847011909
U1  - 840.996 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Woodbridge, Suffolk
PB  - James Currey
KW  - African literature (French)
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - African literature (English)
KW  - Literary Criticism
KW  - European
KW  - French
KW  - Postcolonialism in literature
KW  - British colonies
KW  - West African literature
KW  - West Africa
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "From the 'imaginative geographies' of conquest identified by Edward Said to the very real and material institution of territorial borders, regions and geographical amalgamations, the control, administration and integration of space are known to have played a central and essential role in the creation of contemporary 'Africa'. Space continues to be a site of conflict, from separatist struggles to the distribution of resources to the continued absorption of African territories into the uneven geographies of global capitalism. In this book, Madhu Krishnan examines the ways in which the anxieties and conflicts engendered by these phenomena are registered in a broad set of literary texts from British and French West Africa. By placing these novels in dialogue with a range of archival material such as territorial planning documents, legislative papers, records of liberation movements and development projects, this book reveals the submerged articulations between spatial planning and literary expression, generating new readings of canonical West African texts as well as analyses of otherwise under-researched material"
ER  -