...exploring relationship between literature and the politics of nation-building from various theoretical and intellectual angles. It is much welcomed in an era where scholars seem to have tendency to stake claims to particular, often narrow intellectual, geographic, and disciplinary areas.

Nation-Building is an audacious effort to examine the relationship between literature and the state in Congo/Brazzaville in particular, and in French-speaking Africa more generally. This book focuses on the interaction between the state and literary production, and the connection between prominent political figures and literary ones.

A compelling book which reveals directional trends in the study of nation-building, it provides the scholar and student of Africa, comparative literature, and francophone studies, with a framework to consider about such phenomena as political and ideological consequences of structuring literary works according to the political persuasions of state...

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