Pub Date : 2019-03-05DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823284634.003.0004
Tobias Warner
Benedict Anderson famously tied the spread of newspapers, novels, and vernacular language movements to the rise of nationalism. This chapter tells a very different story about the audiences that print cultures conjure. The years 1930–60 saw an explosion of periodicals in French West Africa. African newspapers developed a rich repertoire of strategies for cultivating their audiences and imagining alternative modes of relating to print besides silent, private reading. Contra Anderson, late colonial-era print networks did not always project audiences according to a nationalist model. Instead, many periodicals were oriented toward a figure this chapter calls the future reader--an elusive, virtual addressee just beyond the margins of existing print publics. After tracing the future reader across novels, newspapers, and more ephemeral print forms, this chapter argues that this figure has come to live on in vernacular literature movements, which continue to concern themselves with producing the readerships they seek to address.
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Pub Date : 2019-03-05DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823284634.003.0002
Tobias Warner
This chapter sketches the beginnings of literary modernity in Senegal through an analysis of a remarkable nineteenth-century collection of textual artifacts.This collection includes a multilingual corpus of poetry, calligraphy, folktales, and songs, as well as the textual components of several leather-bound protective amulets that for centuries Europeans called “fetishes.” The collection was assembled by David Boilat, a mixed-race priest, who pasted his findings into the pages of a notebook before sending them to anthropologists in Paris. Boilat’s notebook reframes the residues of many different textual practices and performance genres as texts that can be quotable, transportable, and readable in new ways. This subsumes collected artifacts into a new textual order, founded on the principle of readability. Nearly a century later, a young Léopold Senghor would incorporate some of Boilat’s collections into an early anthology of African writing in French, thereby consecrating them as literature.
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Pub Date : 2012-02-08DOI: 10.1215/9780822394624-001
E. Davis
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