Claiming history : colonialism, ethnography, and the novel / Eleni Coundouriotis.

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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [173]-204) and index.
LCCN 98034458
ISBN0231113501 (alk. paper)
ISBN023111351X (pbk. : alk. paper)