Of irony and empire : Islam, the West, and the transcultural invention of Africa /
Examines the transformative power of irony in the creation of Muslim Africa.
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2007.
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| Series: | SUNY series, explorations in postcolonial studies.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18252411 |
Table of Contents:
- Prologue : of irony & empire
- African conscripts/European conflicts : race, memory, and the lessons of war
- Ambiguous adventure : reading Cheikh Hamidou Kane
- Heimlich un-Heimlich : of home as heterotopia in Salih, Tlili, and Mokeddem
- Epilogue : the ends of irony.