By Dominic Thomas
What characterizes the connection among literature and the kingdom? may still literature serve the desires of the nation by means of developing nationwide realization, espousing kingdom propaganda, and molding strong electorate? Or may still it be devoted to a distinct form of inventive social exercise? during this very important e-book approximately literature and the politics of nation-building, Dominic Thomas assesses the contributions of Francophone African writers whose works have performed a key function in the new transition to democracy within the Congo. Exploring the works of Sony Labou Tansi, Henri Lopes, and Emmanuel Dongala, between others, Thomas highlights writers in detail concerned with executive and politics -- no matter if in help of the state's imaginative and prescient or with the goal of articulating a extra open view of electorate and society. targeting issues similar to collaboration, reconciliation, identification, heritage, and reminiscence, Nation-Building, Propaganda, and Literature in Francophone Africa elaborates a broader knowing of the conditions of African colonization, sleek African countryside formation, and the complicated cultural dynamics at paintings in Africa due to the fact that independence. (2003)
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6 Indeed, this trajectory has not been uncommon for African and other Diaspora authors, foremost among which figure Léopold Sédar Senghor (president of Senegal from 1960 to 1980) and Aimé Césaire (once mayor of Fort-de-France, Martinique), as well as Henri Lopes, Jean-Baptiste Tati-Loutard, Tchichelle Tchivela, among others in the Congo. 7 This has served to further complicate the relationship between official and non-official cultural prac- 20 Nation-Building, Propaganda, and Literature in Francophone Africa titioners as the lines of officialdom are often blurred, making the task of determining when a text becomes official inevitably fraught with contradictions.
In the latter, Gilroy explains that “the camp mentality of the nationalists is betrayed by its crude theories of culture and might even be defined by the veneration of homogeneity, purity, and unanimity that it fosters. Inside the nation’s fortification, culture is required to assume an artificial texture and an impossibly even consistency” (Gilroy, 84). Many texts resist binary categorization and the implied accompanying “camp” identity contained in the concept of official and non-official literature.
Many texts resist binary categorization and the implied accompanying “camp” identity contained in the concept of official and non-official literature. For example, while authors may refuse the prescriptive nature of statesponsored literature, alternative models may prove equally restrictive. Fundamentally believing that productive readings are located beyond binary categories, I have endeavored to refrain from applying binary constructs to complex cultural and social phenomena and from polarizing cultural practitioners, preferring instead to explore the links that exist between the imagination and representation of cultural and political spaces within the context of decolonization and postcoloniality.