Language and time in postcolonial experience

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Title:	Language and time in postcolonial experience
Author:	Eze, Emmanuel Chukuwudi
Year:	2008
Periodical:	Research in African Literatures
Volume:	39
Issue:	1
Pages:	24-47
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Africa
Subjects:	literature time postcolonialism language usage
External link:	http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/research_in_african_literatures/v039/39.1eze.pdf
Abstract:	This article examines the relationships between language and time from the standpoint of postcolonial African experience. While focusing materially on language, it explores, on the one hand, the concept of time from the point of view of experiences usually characterized as postcolonial. On the other hand, it investigates what the expression 'postcolonial' could mean from the perspective of a general concept of time. These approaches lead one to understand in what ways it could reasonably be argued that, more than in any other modes of consciousness in any disciplines, both the times and the experiences of postcolonialism in continental Africa can be most insightfully traced in the histories of what has been called the African experience in literature. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]