European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan AfricaAlbert S. Gérard John Benjamins Publishing, 1 janv. 1986 - 1288 pages The first major comparative study of African writing in western languages, European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa, edited by Albert S. Gérard, falls into four wide-ranging sections: an overview of early contacts and colonial developments Under Western Eyes ; chapters on Black Consciousness manifest in the debates over Panafricanism and Negritude; a group of essays on mental decolonization expressed in Black Power texts at the time of independence struggles; and finally Comparative Vistas, sketching directions that future comparative study might explore. An introductory essay stresses the millennia of writing in Africa, side by side with a richly eloquent and artistic set of vernacular oral traditions; written and oral traditions have become interwoven in adaptations of imported forms and linguistic innovations that challenge traditional high literary norms. Gérard uses the mathematical concept of fuzzy sets to explain why the focus on Black Africa has led him to set aside for future analysis the literatures produced in North Africa, which fall under the influence of Muslim civilization, as well as the diasporic literatures of the New World. Over sixty scholars from twenty-two countries contribute specialized studies of creative writing by leading authors in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries such as Achebe, Mphahlele, Ngugi, Senghor, Soyinka, and Tutuola. Critical analyses are organized primarily around regions, reflecting different colonial languages imposed through schools and other social institutions. Some authors trace the adaptation of western genres, others identify syncretism with folktales or myths. The volumes are attentive to the heterogeneity of national literatures addressed to polyethnic and multilingual populations, and they note the instrumental politics of language in newly independent states. A closing chapter, Tasks Ahead, identifies areas for future scholars to explore. |
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... France and Norman England) and in the langue d'oc (in southern France). The central epic trend that had characterized Celtic and Germanic writing was continued in the French chansons de geste, While the more refined Provencal ...
... France and Norman England) and in the langue d'oc (in southern France). The central epic trend that had characterized Celtic and Germanic writing was continued in the French chansons de geste, While the more refined Provencal ...
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... France and Professor Pal Paricsy in Hungary, for invaluable advice and suggestions. The Index has been compiled by Professor Paricsy. The editor should be held responsible not only for the essays appearing under his signature but also ...
... France and Professor Pal Paricsy in Hungary, for invaluable advice and suggestions. The Index has been compiled by Professor Paricsy. The editor should be held responsible not only for the essays appearing under his signature but also ...
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... France; they were usually products of uninformed fantasy, although a few of them were fictionalized accounts of Africans who really existed. The coalescence of those two trends led during the last three decades of the century to ...
... France; they were usually products of uninformed fantasy, although a few of them were fictionalized accounts of Africans who really existed. The coalescence of those two trends led during the last three decades of the century to ...
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... France with Gobineau's far more influential Essai sur l 'inégalité des races humaines (Paris, 1853). Horton's interest in West Africa and its future brought forth writings that offered blueprints for the creation of independent states ...
... France with Gobineau's far more influential Essai sur l 'inégalité des races humaines (Paris, 1853). Horton's interest in West Africa and its future brought forth writings that offered blueprints for the creation of independent states ...
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... France for the priesthood, returning to Senegal to launch a secondary school in Saint-Louis under official sponsorship. The school had a brief and stormy existence during the 1840s, but it was also during those busy years that Boilat ...
... France for the priesthood, returning to Senegal to launch a secondary school in Saint-Louis under official sponsorship. The school had a brief and stormy existence during the 1840s, but it was also during those busy years that Boilat ...
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