| Blank Darkness: Africanist Discourse in French Contributor(s): Miller, Christopher L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0226526216 ISBN-13: 9780226526218 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $98.01 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 1986 Annotation: ""Blank Darkness: Africanist Discourse in French "is a brilliant and altogether convincing analysis of the way in which Western writers, from Homer to the twentieth century have . . . imposed their language of desire on the least-known part of the world and have called it 'Africa.' There are excellent readings here of writers ranging from Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Sade, and Celine to Conrad and Yambo Ouologuem, but even more impressive and important than these individual readings is Mr. Miller's wide-ranging, incisive, and exact analysis of 'Africanist' discourse, what it has been and what it has meant in the literature of the Western world."--James Olney, Louisiana State University |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - French - Literary Criticism | African |
| Dewey: 840.996 |
| LCCN: 85001157 |
| Series: Africanist Discourse in French |
| Physical Information: 0.91" H x 6.3" W x 9.31" (1.10 lbs) 283 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Blank Darkness: Africanist Discourse in French is a brilliant and altogether convincing analysis of the way in which Western writers, from Homer to the twentieth century have . . . imposed their language of desire on the least-known part of the world and have called it 'Africa.' There are excellent readings here of writers ranging from Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Sade, and C line to Conrad and Yambo Ouologuem, but even more impressive and important than these individual readings is Mr. Miller's wide-ranging, incisive, and exact analysis of 'Africanist' discourse, what it has been and what it has meant in the literature of the Western world.--James Olney, Louisiana State University |