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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... become cognizant of the word of God, gave a powerful impetus to this evolution. Luther's translation of the Bible generated modern literary German: Bible translation in many other countries stimulated the appearance—or, as in ...
... become cognizant of the word of God, gave a powerful impetus to this evolution. Luther's translation of the Bible generated modern literary German: Bible translation in many other countries stimulated the appearance—or, as in ...
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... become clear that oral composition and performance, far from being a crude, primitive anticipation of real art, require high skill in the manipulation of language and a considerable degree of artistry. Non-literate audiences are ...
... become clear that oral composition and performance, far from being a crude, primitive anticipation of real art, require high skill in the manipulation of language and a considerable degree of artistry. Non-literate audiences are ...
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... become independent republics. Because they were what remained of a once considerably larger Portuguese empire and because they were widely scattered over the continent, spreading from Cape Verde to Angola and Mozambique, African works ...
... become independent republics. Because they were what remained of a once considerably larger Portuguese empire and because they were widely scattered over the continent, spreading from Cape Verde to Angola and Mozambique, African works ...
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... become a professional novelist, the overall lead by West Africa in the foundation of black writing in English was responsible for a sizable number of regional studies such as those of Judith I. Gleason (1965) and Oladele Taiwo (1968) ...
... become a professional novelist, the overall lead by West Africa in the foundation of black writing in English was responsible for a sizable number of regional studies such as those of Judith I. Gleason (1965) and Oladele Taiwo (1968) ...
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... become independent was responsible for the fact that Ugandan writers, who had brought a signal contribution to the ... becomes increasingly clear that underneath the Panafrican ideal to which everybody must pay at least lip-service, each ...
... become independent was responsible for the fact that Ugandan writers, who had brought a signal contribution to the ... becomes increasingly clear that underneath the Panafrican ideal to which everybody must pay at least lip-service, each ...
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