{"product_id":"the-tongue-tied-imagination-decolonizing-literary-modernity-in-senegal-paperback","title":"The Tongue-Tied Imagination: Decolonizing Literary Modernity in Senegal - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTobias Warner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, 2021 African Literature Association First Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShould a writer work in a former colonial language or in a vernacular? The language question was one of the great, intractable problems that haunted postcolonial literatures in the twentieth century, but it has since acquired a reputation as a dead end for narrow nationalism. This book returns to the language question from a fresh perspective. Instead of asking whether language matters, \u003ci\u003eThe Tongue-Tied Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e explores how the language question itself came to matter. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFocusing on the case of Senegal, Warner investigates the intersection of French and Wolof. Drawing on extensive archival research and an under-studied corpus of novels, poetry, and films in both languages, as well as educational projects and popular periodicals, the book traces the emergence of a politics of language from colonization through independence to the era of neoliberal development. Warner reads the francophone works of well-known authors such as Léopold Senghor, Ousmane Sembène, Mariama Bâ, and Boubacar Boris Diop alongside the more overlooked Wolof-language works with which they are in dialogue. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRefusing to see the turn to vernacular languages only as a form of nativism, \u003ci\u003eThe Tongue-Tied Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e argues that the language question opens up a fundamental struggle over the nature and limits of literature itself. Warner reveals how language debates tend to pull in two directions: first, they weave vernacular traditions into the normative patterns of world literature; but second, they create space to imagine how literary culture might be configured otherwise. Drawing on these insights, Warner brilliantly rethinks the terms of world literature and charts a renewed practice of literary comparison.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, 2021 African Literature Association First Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Intellectually capacious and calmly magisterial, this remarkable book uses the case of French and Wolof in Senegal to remake ideas about literature and translation. This exquisite book will be read for decades to come--a decisive intervention from Africa into debates on world literature.\"--Isabel Hofmeyr, New York University \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Warner's groundbreaking book is a patient, thorough, and always clear and elegant examination of the way the language question haunts the production of Senegal's literary tradition. At the same time, it poses in new terms the question of literature and of world literature.\"--Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShould a writer work in a former colonial language or in a vernacular? The language question was one of the great, intractable problems that haunted postcolonial literatures in the twentieth century, but it has since acquired a reputation as a dead end for narrow nationalism. This book returns to the language question from a fresh perspective. Instead of asking whether language matters, \u003ci\u003eThe Tongue-Tied Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e explores how the language question itself came to matter. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFocusing on the case of Senegal, Warner investigates the intersection of French and Wolof. Drawing on extensive archival research and an under-studied corpus of novels, poetry, and films in both languages, as well as educational projects and popular periodicals, the book traces the emergence of a politics of language from colonization into the early independence decades and through to the era of neoliberal development. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRefusing to see the turn to vernacular languages only as a form of nativism, \u003ci\u003eThe Tongue-Tied Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e argues that the language question opens up a fundamental struggle over the nature and limits of literature itself. Warner reveals how language debates tend to pull in two directions: first, they weave vernacular traditions into the normative patterns of world literature; but second, they create space to imagine how literary culture might be configured otherwise. Drawing on these insights, Warner brilliantly rethinks the terms of world literature and charts a renewed practice of literary comparison. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTobias Warner\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California, Davis.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTobias Warner\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California, Davis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 05, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51779225911584,"sku":"9780823284290","price":58.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/53c4e9656d0ac39c37bcdb7caa02c533.webp?v=1780513787","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-tongue-tied-imagination-decolonizing-literary-modernity-in-senegal-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}