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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... experience which, one may be pardoned to hope, will one day prove to have been the smithy where the soul of the nation has been forged. To conclude this discussion: although fixing the limitations of the corpus which shall be here ...
... experience which, one may be pardoned to hope, will one day prove to have been the smithy where the soul of the nation has been forged. To conclude this discussion: although fixing the limitations of the corpus which shall be here ...
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Albert S. Gérard. experience among Liberians has shown that they are generally not unhappy about such distinction. Americans own a lot of property in Liberia and the economic, social and political climate reminds one very much of the ...
Albert S. Gérard. experience among Liberians has shown that they are generally not unhappy about such distinction. Americans own a lot of property in Liberia and the economic, social and political climate reminds one very much of the ...
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... experience as founder and editor of Le Sénégal moderne before he became editor of the newly-founded Revue in 1925. As only one issue of this seems to have survived, there is no complete version of Diop's novel, which was entitled Le ...
... experience as founder and editor of Le Sénégal moderne before he became editor of the newly-founded Revue in 1925. As only one issue of this seems to have survived, there is no complete version of Diop's novel, which was entitled Le ...
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... experience: the amorous, the professional and the religious. Admittedly, Socé's achievement does not measure up to such vast ambitions. Nevertheless, the book is of exceptional historical importance. It is the first novel in French to ...
... experience: the amorous, the professional and the religious. Admittedly, Socé's achievement does not measure up to such vast ambitions. Nevertheless, the book is of exceptional historical importance. It is the first novel in French to ...
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... experience of the young people. Cruelly awakened to the harsh realities of Paris, unable to seek solace and rehabilitation in his own society, which he has outgrown, Fara commits suicide. Henceforth, the Paris myth was to figure ...
... experience of the young people. Cruelly awakened to the harsh realities of Paris, unable to seek solace and rehabilitation in his own society, which he has outgrown, Fara commits suicide. Henceforth, the Paris myth was to figure ...
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