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Article: Michael Syrotinksi. Singular Performances: Reinscribing the Subject in Francophone African Writing.(Book Review)
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- African American Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 2003
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Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2002. 215 pp. $59.50.
Michael Syrotinski's highly theoretical Singular Performances: Reinscribing the Subject in Francophone African Writing should be of interest to any scholar interested in postcolonial literary theory, African literature, and French literary history and philosophy. This work offers a critical examination of the question of subjectivity in recent Francophone African literature and philosophy. Through the use of lucid academic prose, Syrotinski maps out a literary tradition based on the production of an authentic African narrative voice emerging from the colonial grip of Western cultural influence. However, ...