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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... beginning with Luso-African literature, and during the last decades of the century, the peculiar variety of Dutch, known as Afrikaans, which had gradually become the vehicular language in South Africa, gained official status and a start ...
... beginning with Luso-African literature, and during the last decades of the century, the peculiar variety of Dutch, known as Afrikaans, which had gradually become the vehicular language in South Africa, gained official status and a start ...
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... beginning of the twentieth century the white man was still the accepted, though perhaps no longer unquestioned, master of global affairs, his very presence, power and prestige were bound to instil in his coloured subjects a strong ...
... beginning of the twentieth century the white man was still the accepted, though perhaps no longer unquestioned, master of global affairs, his very presence, power and prestige were bound to instil in his coloured subjects a strong ...
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... beginning to exist side by side with, and in some cases to supersede, the oral tradition, Was bound to lead to valuable generalizations about the origins of Western literatures, indeed of the written art altogether. Actually, the kind ...
... beginning to exist side by side with, and in some cases to supersede, the oral tradition, Was bound to lead to valuable generalizations about the origins of Western literatures, indeed of the written art altogether. Actually, the kind ...
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... 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 black man's viewpoint in many ...
... 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 black man's viewpoint in many ...
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... beginning and at the end, and it is an incontrovertible fact that the “colonial” period of African literature in European languages came to an end sooner in West Africa (French and British), in French Equatorial Africa, in British East ...
... beginning and at the end, and it is an incontrovertible fact that the “colonial” period of African literature in European languages came to an end sooner in West Africa (French and British), in French Equatorial Africa, in British East ...
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