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Ndiaye, Serigne.

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The ambiguity of the sign: Modes of imagining Africa in Francophone African and Caribbean literatures.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The ambiguity of the sign: Modes of imagining Africa in Francophone African and Caribbean literatures./
Author:	Ndiaye, Serigne.
Description:	193 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-04, Section: A, page: 1329.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-04A.
Subject:	Literature, Comparative. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3050128
ISBN:	9780493647722

The ambiguity of the sign: Modes of imagining Africa in Francophone African and Caribbean literatures.
Ndiaye, Serigne.

The ambiguity of the sign: Modes of imagining Africa in Francophone African and Caribbean literatures. - 193 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-04, Section: A, page: 1329.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Emory University, 2002.

The impulse to refute the racial prejudices underlying Eurocentric presuppositions about Africa has generated diverse theoretical formulations of "the idea of Africa." Centered on Francophone sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean, and combining literary and philosophical texts, this dissertation analyzes some of these formulations while underscoring the limitations specific to each of them. To explore the appeal to "Africa" as a sign that has authorized the articulation of discourses of self-representation, it looks at ideologically dissimilar but interrelated modes of imagining Africa.

ISBN: 9780493647722Subjects--Topical Terms:

530051
Literature, Comparative.

The ambiguity of the sign: Modes of imagining Africa in Francophone African and Caribbean literatures.
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520 $a The impulse to refute the racial prejudices underlying Eurocentric presuppositions about Africa has generated diverse theoretical formulations of "the idea of Africa." Centered on Francophone sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean, and combining literary and philosophical texts, this dissertation analyzes some of these formulations while underscoring the limitations specific to each of them. To explore the appeal to "Africa" as a sign that has authorized the articulation of discourses of self-representation, it looks at ideologically dissimilar but interrelated modes of imagining Africa.
520 $a The study starts with Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of History to analyze the Eurocentric and logocentric thought that shoves Africa outside the realm of history while, at the same time, setting up theoretical paradigms that foreground racial difference. Focusing on the 1956 Congress of Black Writers and Artists held in Paris, it then examines critical responses attempting to refute the Eurocentric racial biases. These refutations tend to operate through an imagining of Africa that binds racial difference to a history of victimization while engaging in a symbolic construction of a comprehensive black world. Aime Cesaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal provides a framework for analyzing such a construction. The study then uses Maryse Conde's Heremakhonon and Myriam Warner-Vieyra's Juletane to investigate the challenges posed by the rhetoric of sameness running through the formulation of the relationships between Africa and its diaspora, as conducted by Cesaire. This urge to envisage Africa as an embattled notion is further explored by Daniel Biyaoula's novel, L'impasse. Even though Biyaoula seems to intimate that Africa is a convoluted and ambiguous notion that resists simple abstractions, he seems to place it into an Afropessimistic abyss. Conde, Warner-Vieyra, and Biyaoula all suggest critical modes of reading "Africa" that challenge racial binarism. Yet they hardly move beyond the negativism and hopelessness that have often characterized reflections on Africa.
520 $a The anchor point of the dissertation is that these reflections must rise beyond a simplistic rhetoric of difference, which deploys a rhetoric of binarism and a Self/Other paradigm. They should also avoid being entrapped in a negativistic discourse. The study thus concludes by calling forth the necessity of imagining Africa as a site of open-ended options, which does not capitalize on difference, but takes account of the ambiguity of the "sign" as one that rather defines a flexible field of critical potentialities which resist rigid confinements.
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