Colonial Ambivalence, Cultural Authenticity, and the Limitations of Mimicry in French-ruled West Africa, 1914-1956Colonial Ambivalence, Cultural Authenticity, and the Limitations of Mimicry in French-Ruled West Africa, 1914-1956 offers an innovative and provocative reassessment of the history and legacies of French colonial rule in West Africa between the First World War and the late 1950s. Making critical use of postcolonial and cultural theory, James E. Genova argues that the colonizers and the colonized were locked in a struggle for authority increasingly structured by competing notions of what it meant to be French or African. This book breaks new ground by demonstrating the centrality of the cultural question in the imperial encounters between France and West Africa. It maps the emergence of the French-educated elite as a social class in French West Africa as a window into the complex relationship between agency and structural context in the making of history. A disjunction developed between decolonization and liberation in the colonial liaison of France and West Africa that left colonizers and colonized trapped in a neocolonial cultural framework actualizing Frantz Fanon's deepest fears about the postcolony. |
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... Four Communes became an increasingly special case in the French colonial field and it is that specialness that provided the institutional context for it being an originating space for leaders of the anti - colonial movements during ...
... Four Communes became an increasingly special case in the French colonial field and it is that specialness that provided the institutional context for it being an originating space for leaders of the anti - colonial movements during ...
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... Four Communes . However , Ponty's attempt to defuse the political crisis came too late and was too limited in scope . While the originaires were protected from the indigénat even outside the Four Communes and were recognized as electors ...
... Four Communes . However , Ponty's attempt to defuse the political crisis came too late and was too limited in scope . While the originaires were protected from the indigénat even outside the Four Communes and were recognized as electors ...
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... Four Communes automatically granted the same status as their parents ? Also , what was the status of children produced by relationships between natives of the Four Communes and sujets ? 50 Adhering to precedent , Dakar insisted that ...
... Four Communes automatically granted the same status as their parents ? Also , what was the status of children produced by relationships between natives of the Four Communes and sujets ? 50 Adhering to precedent , Dakar insisted that ...
Contents
Colonial Transgressions and the Great War | 15 |
Cultural Authenticity Négritude and AntiFascism | 133 |
Intermediate Spaces and Citizenship | 179 |
Copyright | |
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African culture Afrique Occidentale Angoulvant Assembly asserted authentic Blaise Diagne CAOM chiefs citizenship claimed colonial administration colonial field colonial subjects Coloniale colonized populations constituted Dakar December Decolonization Delafosse Dépêche Africaine deputy from Senegal Diagne's discourse elected empire ethnographers évolués February federation Four Communes France and West French citizens French colonial French rule French West Africa French-educated elite Gaulle governor griots Guèye Houphouët-Boigny imperial framework indigénat indigenous January Kouyaté l'Afrique Occidentale française L'Étudiant Noir Lamine Guèye Lamine Senghor LDRN leaders Léopold Sédar Senghor Léopold Senghor letter from Diagne Ligue Maran metropole metropolitan ministry for Overseas ministry of colonies mission civilisatrice modern griots Moutet native nègres Négritude Noir November numbers officials organization originaires Overseas France Paris political Politique Popular Front pre-colonial elite Rapport recruitment Republic rural Senegal Senegalese social struggle for authority sujet population traditional tribal University Press urban elite Vichy West African society
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