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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... Civilization in African Fiction 2. Aspects of the Short Story Chapter XV: Shapes of French Writing: Black Africa, North Africa and the West Indies 1. Sub-Saharan Africa and the Maghreb: Literary Form in Prose Fiction, by Gerald MOORE 2 ...
... Civilization in African Fiction 2. Aspects of the Short Story Chapter XV: Shapes of French Writing: Black Africa, North Africa and the West Indies 1. Sub-Saharan Africa and the Maghreb: Literary Form in Prose Fiction, by Gerald MOORE 2 ...
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... civilization—the literary output of that part of the continent which lies south of the Sahara has reached such proportions that several of the independent African states can now be held to have produced clearly identifiable national ...
... civilization—the literary output of that part of the continent which lies south of the Sahara has reached such proportions that several of the independent African states can now be held to have produced clearly identifiable national ...
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... civilization, upholding common western values, not to mention their sharing a common skin-colour. To this membership of a common European culture they clung tenaciously even when asserting with relentless obduracy their separate ...
... civilization, upholding common western values, not to mention their sharing a common skin-colour. To this membership of a common European culture they clung tenaciously even when asserting with relentless obduracy their separate ...
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... civilization. But this should not blind us to the existence of safety valves. Even when writing under stern Western eyes, a number of authors managed to voice a measure of protest: some were able to rely on the protection of liberal ...
... civilization. But this should not blind us to the existence of safety valves. Even when writing under stern Western eyes, a number of authors managed to voice a measure of protest: some were able to rely on the protection of liberal ...
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... civilization has been prominent at any rate in the country's coastal towns since as early as the seventeenth century. The birth of “national literatures” in Africa was not recognized until the seventies, and then in a manner as ...
... civilization has been prominent at any rate in the country's coastal towns since as early as the seventeenth century. The birth of “national literatures” in Africa was not recognized until the seventies, and then in a manner as ...
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