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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... WESTERN EYES Chapter I: Early Contacts 1. The Portuguese in Africa, by Gerald MOSER 2. Modern African Writing in Latin, by Albert s. GERARD 3. Eighteenth-Century Writing in English, by Paul EDWARDS Chapter II: West Africa 1. The Primacy ...
... WESTERN EYES Chapter I: Early Contacts 1. The Portuguese in Africa, by Gerald MOSER 2. Modern African Writing in Latin, by Albert s. GERARD 3. Eighteenth-Century Writing in English, by Paul EDWARDS Chapter II: West Africa 1. The Primacy ...
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... West Indies: Two Negritudes, by Jacqueline LEINER Chapter XVI: Africa and the Western Hemisphere 1. Richard Wright, Negritude and African Writing, by Michel FABRE 2. Anti-Politics and Its Bourgeois Representation in Cuban and African ...
... West Indies: Two Negritudes, by Jacqueline LEINER Chapter XVI: Africa and the Western Hemisphere 1. Richard Wright, Negritude and African Writing, by Michel FABRE 2. Anti-Politics and Its Bourgeois Representation in Cuban and African ...
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... West Africa followed an entirely different pattern. Black West Africa was originally converted to Islam by the Berber dynasty of the Almoravids in the eleventh century, and Sudanic Islam inherited the strong fundamentalist trend which ...
... West Africa followed an entirely different pattern. Black West Africa was originally converted to Islam by the Berber dynasty of the Almoravids in the eleventh century, and Sudanic Islam inherited the strong fundamentalist trend which ...
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... Western literature in the early Middle Ages in spite of the fact that the European presence in Africa was of much ... West Indies who elaborated the negritude concept convened a large conference of black writers and artists in Paris ...
... Western literature in the early Middle Ages in spite of the fact that the European presence in Africa was of much ... West Indies who elaborated the negritude concept convened a large conference of black writers and artists in Paris ...
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... West African drama in French, or Joseph-Marie J adot, whose Les Ecrivains africains du Congo belge et du Ruanda— Urundi (1959) provided detailed information about what little writing had been done in what is now Zaire, in 1960 Lilyan ...
... West African drama in French, or Joseph-Marie J adot, whose Les Ecrivains africains du Congo belge et du Ruanda— Urundi (1959) provided detailed information about what little writing had been done in what is now Zaire, in 1960 Lilyan ...
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