the colonizer. Their fall bears the mark of division and betrayal, while announcing the struggle to come, which will, this time, end in victory and open the path to independence. The final section opens on a stimulating discussion about the complementarity of literature and history to interrogate the elaboration of collective memory and identity in Africa through the example of the cultural hero. The political nature of resistance narratives requires an interdisciplinary perspective that examines how the ‘vraisemblable’ (seemingly true) shapes collective imagination and incorporates extratextual elements to identify how literature sublimates traumatic memories. In addition to this powerful evocation of the role of narrative in creating political and cultural communities, Bertho also proposes a perceptive study of the role of the colonial archive in postcolonial Africa. Although it remains a powerful instrument of the state, the archive has become a source of contestation of colonial narratives and of glorification of African heroes: while colonial documents reveal the brutality of repression, photographs become iconic images that further promote national heroes. Bertho rightfully remarks that these strategies of commemoration also serve to impose certain forms of amnesia, as postcolonial regimes are eager to silence contemporary issues and failures through the celebration of a glorious past. However, because they remain essentially paradoxical and ambivalent, and resist total appropriation, resistance figures remain privileged sites from which to interrogate a world in crisis and to announce other narratives to come. This monumental study successfully weaves fiction, archives and fieldwork to compose a ground-breaking, multilinguistic study investigating cultural heroes and collective identity across the African continent. Sophisticated in its conceptual and theoretical apparatus, elegant and clear in its writing, flawless in its demonstration and bibliographical apparatus, it shows how much literary studies have to offer when exploring contemporary history and memory in Africa.

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Olakunle George，《非洲文学与社会变革：部落、民族、种族》。布卢明顿 IN：印第安纳大学出版社（hb US$80 – 978 0 253 02546 3；pb US$30 – 978 0 253 02580 7）。2017 年，ix + 211 页。

殖民者。他们的堕落带有分裂和背叛的烙印，同时也宣告着即将到来的斗争，这一次将以胜利告终，开辟独立之路。最后一部分开始了关于文学和历史互补性的激动人心的讨论，以通过文化英雄的例子来询问非洲集体记忆和身份的阐述。抵抗叙事的政治性质需要一个跨学科的视角来检验“可组合的”（看似真实）如何塑造集体想象力，并结合超文本元素来确定文学如何升华创伤记忆。除了这种对叙事在创造政治和文化社区中的作用的有力唤起之外，Bertho 还提议对殖民档案在后殖民非洲的作用进行深入研究。尽管它仍然是国家的强大工具，但档案已成为对殖民叙事的争论和对非洲英雄的赞美的来源：虽然殖民文件揭示了镇压的残酷性，但照片成为进一步宣传民族英雄的标志性图像。Bertho 正确地评论说，这些纪念策略也有助于强加某些形式的健忘症，因为后殖民政权渴望通过庆祝辉煌的过去来平息当代问题和失败。然而，因为它们本质上仍然是矛盾和矛盾的，并且抵制完全挪用，抵抗人物仍然是审问处于危机中的世界和宣布其他故事的特权场所。这项具有里程碑意义的研究成功地将小说、档案和实地考察结合在一起，组成了一项开创性的多语言研究，调查了整个非洲大陆的文化英雄和集体认同。其概念和理论装置精巧，文笔优雅清晰，示范和书目装置完美无缺，显示了在探索非洲当代历史和记忆时，文学研究必须提供多少。