The Tongue-Tied Imagination: Decolonizing Literary Modernity In Senegal - 9780823284634

Should 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 instead of asking whether language matters, The Tongue-Tied Imagination explores how the language question itself came to matter--Provided by publisher.

• | Author: Tobias Warner
• | Publisher: Fordham University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 05, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 320 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 0823284638
• | ISBN-13: 9780823284634