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Muslim interpreters in colonial Senegal, 1850-1920 : mediations of knowledge and power in the lower and middle Senegal River Valley / Tamba M'bayo.

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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. Its main themes include the intersection of knowledge and power in a colonial context, Muslim identity form...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: M'bayo, Tamba, 1956- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, 2016.
Subjects:
Translators > Senegal > History > 19th century.
Translators > Senegal > History > 20th century.
Translating and interpreting > Social aspects > Senegal.
Muslims > Senegal.
Senegal > Foreign relations > France.
France > Foreign relations > Senegal.
Senegal > History > 19th century.
Senegal > History > 20th century.
Diplomatic relations.
Muslims.
Translating and interpreting > Social aspects.
Translators.
France.
Senegal.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: African interpreters in colonial Senegal
  • Interpreter family biographies: biography as history
  • Inconspicuous interpreters
  • The creation of an indigenous interpreter corps in Saint Louis
  • French expansion, commerce, and conquest, 1850s-1880s
  • The Mauritanian challenge: "Pacification" and African mediators.

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