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Muslim Interpreters in Colonial Senegal, 1850–1920

- Mediations of Knowledge and Power in the Lower and Middle Senegal River Valley
Af: Tamba M'bayo Engelsk Paperback

Muslim Interpreters in Colonial Senegal, 1850–1920

- Mediations of Knowledge and Power in the Lower and Middle Senegal River Valley
Af: Tamba M'bayo Engelsk Paperback
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This book investigates the lives and careers of Muslim African interpreters employed by the French colonial administration in Saint Louis, Senegal, from the 1850s to the early 1920s. It focuses on the lower and middle Senegal River valley in northern Senegal, where the French concentrated most of their activities in West Africa during the nineteenth century. The Muslim interpreters performed multiple roles as mediators, military and expeditionary guides, emissaries, diplomatic hosts, and treaty negotiators. As cultural and political powerbrokers that straddled the colonial divide, they were indispensable for French officials in their relations with African rulers and the local population. As such, a central concern of this book is the paradoxical and often contradictory roles the interpreters played in mediating between the French and Africans. This book argues that the Muslim interpreters exemplified a paradox: while serving the French administration they pursued their own interests and defended those of their local communities. In doing so, the interpreters strove to maintain some degree of autonomy. Moreover, this book contends that the interpreters occupied a vantage position as mediators to influence the construction of colonial discourse and knowledge, because they channeled the flow of information between the French and the African population. Thus, Muslim interpreters had the capacity to shape power relations between the colonizers and the colonized in Senegal.
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This book investigates the lives and careers of Muslim African interpreters employed by the French colonial administration in Saint Louis, Senegal, from the 1850s to the early 1920s. It focuses on the lower and middle Senegal River valley in northern Senegal, where the French concentrated most of their activities in West Africa during the nineteenth century. The Muslim interpreters performed multiple roles as mediators, military and expeditionary guides, emissaries, diplomatic hosts, and treaty negotiators. As cultural and political powerbrokers that straddled the colonial divide, they were indispensable for French officials in their relations with African rulers and the local population. As such, a central concern of this book is the paradoxical and often contradictory roles the interpreters played in mediating between the French and Africans. This book argues that the Muslim interpreters exemplified a paradox: while serving the French administration they pursued their own interests and defended those of their local communities. In doing so, the interpreters strove to maintain some degree of autonomy. Moreover, this book contends that the interpreters occupied a vantage position as mediators to influence the construction of colonial discourse and knowledge, because they channeled the flow of information between the French and the African population. Thus, Muslim interpreters had the capacity to shape power relations between the colonizers and the colonized in Senegal.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 234
ISBN-13: 9781498510004
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1498510000
Udg. Dato: 12 apr 2019
Længde: 20mm
Bredde: 229mm
Højde: 152mm
Forlag: Lexington Books
Oplagsdato: 12 apr 2019
Forfatter(e): Tamba M'bayo
Forfatter(e) Tamba M'bayo


Kategori Social- & Kulturhistorie


ISBN-13 9781498510004


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 234


Udgave


Længde 20mm


Bredde 229mm


Højde 152mm


Udg. Dato 12 apr 2019


Oplagsdato 12 apr 2019


Forlag Lexington Books