TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bangura,Ahmed S.
TI  - Islam and the West African Novel: The Politics of Representation 
SN  - 9781626373679
AV  - PL8014.W37 
U1  - 809.3/938297 21
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Boulder : 
PB  - Lynne Rienner Publishers, 
KW  - Islam and politics
KW  - Africa, West
KW  - Islam in literature
KW  - Islam
KW  - History
KW  - Politics and literature
KW  - West African fiction
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / African
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; 1 Introduction --; 2 Africa, Islam, and the Legacies of Colonialism --; 3 Islam and Africanist Literary Criticism --; 4 Critical (Mis)Readings of Sembène Ousmane --; 5 Taming Islam: Aminata Sow Fall --; 6 The Quest for Orthodoxy in Ibrahim Tahir’s The Last Imam --; 7 Conclusion --; Glossary --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the Book; restricted access
N2  - Ahmed Bangura argues that a deeply ingrained pattern of prejudice toward Islam in European-language writing on Africa has led to serious misreadings of many West African novels
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781626373679
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781626373679
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781626373679/original
ER  -