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expressing identity through Congolese literary texts and films
Chapter 1: The invention of a national framework -- The lair of the mysterious? -- Co-opting the (K)Congo -- Rubber protest and human rights violations -- New sites of power, conditions of togetherness -- Evangelization of the Belgian Congo -- Chapter 2: The gaze and writing back, early literary landscape -- The colonial moment and phases of domestication -- Belgian exotic and colonial literatures -- Missionary (literary) writings -- The anthropological impulse and natives' writings -- Les évolués and la voix du congolais -- Ngando and Kinshasa -- Awakening and modern Congolese music -- Francophone Congolese writers -- Chapter 3: Joseph Conrad and the darkness topos -- On the originals of Kurtz -- Heart of darkness, the metaphor of greed -- An outpost of progress: the pitfalls of a blueprint -- Chapter 4: Orature and modern writings: Bolamba, Faik Nzuji, Kama Kamanda -- African literature and orature -- Orature and three Congolese literary works -- Bolamba, the Lokolé or the drum of the nation -- Faïk-Nzuji: country crier with the Kasàlà -- Kama Kamanda: oral tradition and the modern tale -- Chapter 5: Literature and national imaginary in a decolonized space -- Mudimbe's fiction and the writing of the nation -- Mudimbe and the topos of civil war -- Mudimbe's Déchirures and martyrdom of Kisangani -- Mudimbe's characters and their dilemmas -- Between tides or the search for a path -- Before the birth of the moon -- Shaba deux: the metadiscourse of the nation -- L'ecart or the rift: briding the chasm of the epistemological order -- Autour de la nation (1972): time for meditation -- Mudimbe on religion and epistemology -- Ngandu Nkashama's literary opus: -- La malédictioná: discourse of the "event" -- Ngandu Nkashama's other novels -- Ngal and his work -- L'errance and recours à l'authenticité -- L'errance, novel of Congolity -- Chapter 6: Cinematic representation of the Congolese subject -- Ethnographic/anthropological Cinema -- The natives' images in the metroples -- Post-World War I colonial cinema -- The cinema of the Belgian Congo -- Belgian colonial cinema with a missionary touch -- Mweze Ngangura's films -- La vie est belle: framing Kinshasa through rumba -- Pièces d'identités: from the precolonial to the postcolonial -- Les habits neufs du gouverneur: mourning the nation in public -- Balufu-Kanyinda and Juju factory -- Raoul Peck and Congo's political consciousness.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-412) and index.
Congolese (Democratic Republic) literature
Authors, Congolese (Democratic Republic)