Subversive Traditions: Reinventing the West African Epic

by Jonathon Repinecz

How can traditions be subversive? The kinship between African traditions and novels has been under debate for the better part of a century, but the conversation has stagnated because of a slowness to question the terms on which it is based: orality vs. writing, tradition vs. modernity, epic vs. novel. These rigid binaries were, in fact, invented by colonialism and cemented by postcolonial identity politics. Thanks to this entrenched paradigm, far...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611863341
• ISBN13: 9781611863345
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 8.9"