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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... influence of Western colonialism on the development of literature over time, we observe that it took on two forms, each with its own characteristic features. Throughout the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth, apart from a ...
... influence of Western colonialism on the development of literature over time, we observe that it took on two forms, each with its own characteristic features. Throughout the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth, apart from a ...
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... influence of the ideas of Frantz F anon, a Martinican sociologist living in Algeria, seems to be an exceptional phenomenon, and though there are rather striking thematic similarities between Maghrebi and black African writing in French ...
... influence of the ideas of Frantz F anon, a Martinican sociologist living in Algeria, seems to be an exceptional phenomenon, and though there are rather striking thematic similarities between Maghrebi and black African writing in French ...
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... influence each other in many respects: coming back to our topic it would be interesting to enquire how much Alan Paton's world-renowned Cry, the Beloved Country owes to the cheap edifying novellas that had been published previously in ...
... influence each other in many respects: coming back to our topic it would be interesting to enquire how much Alan Paton's world-renowned Cry, the Beloved Country owes to the cheap edifying novellas that had been published previously in ...
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... influence of another element, which tends to bring literary Africa into line with the European tradition: the principle of nationhood. After independence was proclaimed in the early sixties, the three countries that the British colonial ...
... influence of another element, which tends to bring literary Africa into line with the European tradition: the principle of nationhood. After independence was proclaimed in the early sixties, the three countries that the British colonial ...
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... influence of the French language and 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 ...
... influence of the French language and 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 ...
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