By Dominic Thomas
What characterizes the connection among literature and the country? may still literature serve the desires of the country through developing nationwide attention, espousing nation propaganda, and molding solid voters? Or may still it be devoted to a distinct type of inventive social activity? during this vital e-book approximately literature and the politics of nation-building, Dominic Thomas assesses the contributions of Francophone African writers whose works have performed a key function in the hot transition to democracy within the Congo. Exploring the works of Sony Labou Tansi, Henri Lopes, and Emmanuel Dongala, between others, Thomas highlights writers in detail concerned with govt and politics -- even if in help of the state's imaginative and prescient or with the goal of articulating a extra open view of voters and society. concentrating on issues similar to collaboration, reconciliation, identification, background, and reminiscence, Nation-Building, Propaganda, and Literature in Francophone Africa elaborates a broader realizing of the situations of African colonization, sleek African countryside formation, and the complicated cultural dynamics at paintings in Africa seeing that independence. (2003)
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Assimilationist policies were an integral part of French colonialism, and since Socialist Realism begins with the rejection of bourgeois culture, it presented itself as the archetypal model for postcolonial government elites eager to promote national unity. These issues are all the more relevant within the African context, because the introduction of a formalized system of writing coincided with exposure to Western colonialism; in the francophone subSaharan African context, this contact was simultaneously accompanied by assimilation to French cultural prototypes.
However, this also created a symbiotic dependency in the need for continued social unity as a deterrent to further exploitative contact. The Marxist-Leninist model thus enabled governments to reject colonialism and imperialism, but also the economic foundations of the colonizer’s rule, namely capitalism. Governments were thus able to transform the fight against Western capitalism into an ongoing class struggle. Assimilationist policies were an integral part of French colonialism, and since Socialist Realism begins with the rejection of bourgeois culture, it presented itself as the archetypal model for postcolonial government elites eager to promote national unity.
38 Non-official authors may focus on aesthetic considerations explicitly as they attempt to distance themselves from reductive official guidelines, in which concern for the message articulated kills creativity. Non-official authors challenge the official picture and the power structures which the governing authorities depend on.