Tamba M'Bayo

Muslim Interpreters in Colonial Senegal, 1850-1920

Mediations of Knowledge and Power in the Lower and Middle Senegal River Valley

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the intermediary functions of Muslim interpreters in Senegal to affirm their status as active historical agents in the historiography on French colonial rule in West Africa, including themes such as the intersection of knowledge and power in a colonial context and Muslim identity formation and French assimilation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 387g
• ISBN-13: 9781498510004
• ISBN-10: 1498510000
• Artikelnr.: 55729100

Autorenporträt

By Tamba M'bayo

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Muslim African Interpreters in Colonial Senegal Chapter 1:
Interpreter Family Biographies: Biography as History Chapter 2:
Inconspicuous Interpreters Chapter 3: The Creation of an Indigenous
Interpreter Corps in Saint Louis Chapter 4: French Expansion, Commerce, and
Conquest, 1850s-1880s Chapter 5: The Mauritanian Challenge: "Pacification"
and African Mediators Conclusion