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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... later date: the gradual—~and in recent years fairly massive—appropriation of - European languages by African writers for didactic and, at a later point, creative purposes. It is here that African tributaries have joined the mainstream ...
... later date: the gradual—~and in recent years fairly massive—appropriation of - European languages by African writers for didactic and, at a later point, creative purposes. It is here that African tributaries have joined the mainstream ...
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... later stage, producing creative writing in English as well. By contrast no vernacular tradition of writing developed in areas that had been colonized by the French, the Portuguese and the Spanish; and as the Italians, during their short ...
... later stage, producing creative writing in English as well. By contrast no vernacular tradition of writing developed in areas that had been colonized by the French, the Portuguese and the Spanish; and as the Italians, during their short ...
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... (later, the Republic) of South Africa proved to be an exception in Britain's African empire in fostering a large amount of increasingly explicit protest writing under colonial conditions, in a different sense it can be regarded as fairly ...
... (later, the Republic) of South Africa proved to be an exception in Britain's African empire in fostering a large amount of increasingly explicit protest writing under colonial conditions, in a different sense it can be regarded as fairly ...
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... later studied as a self-contained whole by such pioneering scholars as Manuel Ferreira in Portugal, Gerald Moser in the United States and Elena Rjauzova in the USSR. I The overwhelming importance of the linguistic parameter is of course ...
... later studied as a self-contained whole by such pioneering scholars as Manuel Ferreira in Portugal, Gerald Moser in the United States and Elena Rjauzova in the USSR. I The overwhelming importance of the linguistic parameter is of course ...
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... later, more successful analyses such as Adrian Roscoe's (1971) or Emmanuel Obiechina's (1975). As to Eastern Africa, it is a matter of historical fact that it was last to take its place on the scene of African literature in English ...
... later, more successful analyses such as Adrian Roscoe's (1971) or Emmanuel Obiechina's (1975). As to Eastern Africa, it is a matter of historical fact that it was last to take its place on the scene of African literature in English ...
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