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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... elite posed a political challenge to the authority of metropolitan officials in West Africa . Ethnographers , however , viewed the French - educated elite as an unsettling presence that called into question their basic assumptions about ...
... elite posed a political challenge to the authority of metropolitan officials in West Africa . Ethnographers , however , viewed the French - educated elite as an unsettling presence that called into question their basic assumptions about ...
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... French - educated elite and that practiced by Dakar and Paris translated into a flirtation with fascism by some évolués in France . " Even Léopold Senghor testified to the influence Hitler fascism had among the educated elite from the ...
... French - educated elite and that practiced by Dakar and Paris translated into a flirtation with fascism by some évolués in France . " Even Léopold Senghor testified to the influence Hitler fascism had among the educated elite from the ...
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... French - educated elite appear more ominous in the imaginaire of the colonial administration . 41 The solution , according to some in the imperial hierarchy , was " the creation ... of a new juridical category " between citizen and ...
... French - educated elite appear more ominous in the imaginaire of the colonial administration . 41 The solution , according to some in the imperial hierarchy , was " the creation ... of a new juridical category " between citizen and ...
Contents
Colonial Transgressions and the Great War | 15 |
Cultural Authenticity Négritude and AntiFascism | 133 |
Intermediate Spaces and Citizenship | 179 |
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