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African-language Literature and Postcolonial Criticism
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1999
Imagined Commonwealths
Critics have often discussed African novels on postcolonialism as subversive and counterdiscursive to European representations of Africa with limited attention paid on the layers of inscriptions relating to pre-colonial, colonial, and postcolonial Africa embedded in these texts. This study uses the metaphor of the palimpsest to explore the layers of writings ranging from the pre-colonial culture, the colonial textual depictions of Africa and the postcolonial response and re-portrayal of Africa
doi:10.1007/978-1-349-27060-6_8
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