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This chapter analyzes conceptualisations of development in a corpus of French, English and African fictional and biographical writing of the 1920s and 1930s. Written by colonial servants, missionaries, teachers and anthropologists the texts under discussion are marked by the double function of their authors – both storytellers and agents in the processes they tell. Through close reading the chapter shows how narrative representations and imaginations give insight into the history of development in Africa.
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This page is a summary of: Developing Africa in the colonial imagination: European and African narrative writing of the interwar period1, November 2014, Manchester University Press,
DOI: 10.7228/manchester/9780719091803.003.0015.
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