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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... became desirous of asserting their national identity. American literature began to separate itself from the original body of English literature, Brazilian from Portuguese, and the other literatures of Latin America from Spanish. By the ...
... became desirous of asserting their national identity. American literature began to separate itself from the original body of English literature, Brazilian from Portuguese, and the other literatures of Latin America from Spanish. By the ...
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... became aware of the still embryonic existence and the tremendous potentialities of European-language literature in Africa in 1956 when Présence Africaine and the French-speaking intellectuals from Africa and the West Indies who ...
... became aware of the still embryonic existence and the tremendous potentialities of European-language literature in Africa in 1956 when Présence Africaine and the French-speaking intellectuals from Africa and the West Indies who ...
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... became a respectable theory and a beginning was made with the ruthless colonial imperialism that was given free rein at the Berlin Conference—~writers in English in Sierra Leone and along the Guinea Coast were allowed to express the ...
... became a respectable theory and a beginning was made with the ruthless colonial imperialism that was given free rein at the Berlin Conference—~writers in English in Sierra Leone and along the Guinea Coast were allowed to express the ...
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... became obsolete both because of the development of industrial capitalism and as a result of the growth of ... became steadily more outspoken as they played a more active part in the emancipation of their brethren. ' Henri Gregoire, De la ...
... became obsolete both because of the development of industrial capitalism and as a result of the growth of ... became steadily more outspoken as they played a more active part in the emancipation of their brethren. ' Henri Gregoire, De la ...
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... became also the first to exert an influence in such domains as commerce and warfare on the one hand, religion and language on the other. They came filled with all the zeal and greed but also the curiosity, daring and sense of human ...
... became also the first to exert an influence in such domains as commerce and warfare on the one hand, religion and language on the other. They came filled with all the zeal and greed but also the curiosity, daring and sense of human ...
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