Claiming history : colonialism, ethnography, and the novel / Eleni Coundouriotis.
| Author/creator | Coundouriotis, Eleni |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Columbia University Press, ©1999. |
| Description | x, 211 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The traditional cultures of René Maran and Chinua Achebe -- History, human sacrifices, and the victorian travelers to Dahomey -- Contesting authenticity: Paul Hazoumé, ethnography, and Negritude -- Resistant history in Paul Hazoumé's Doguicimi -- History as transgression in Le Devoir de violence -- Temporality and the geographies of the nation: "The future present" in The Famished Road. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-204) and index. |
| LCCN | 98034458 |
| ISBN | 0231113501 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 023111351X (pbk. : alk. paper) |