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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... major events in the contemporary history of the Swahili community, such as the antagonism between the Sultan of Zanzibar and the governors of coastal towns, and, later, the resistance offered by the inland tribes to the European ...
... major events in the contemporary history of the Swahili community, such as the antagonism between the Sultan of Zanzibar and the governors of coastal towns, and, later, the resistance offered by the inland tribes to the European ...
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... major achievements was to establish Western contact with Black Africa, when Portuguese sailors reached the River Senegal in 1445 as a first step towards the discovery of a sea-route to India. From then on, relationships between Europe ...
... major achievements was to establish Western contact with Black Africa, when Portuguese sailors reached the River Senegal in 1445 as a first step towards the discovery of a sea-route to India. From then on, relationships between Europe ...
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... major trend in eighteenth-century culture was the growth of romanticism with its interest in exoticism on the one hand, and in the literary exploitation of personal experience on the other; whereas African exoticism had made an early ...
... major trend in eighteenth-century culture was the growth of romanticism with its interest in exoticism on the one hand, and in the literary exploitation of personal experience on the other; whereas African exoticism had made an early ...
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... major work, West African Countries and Peoples (London, 1868), Horton gave details of the formation of sovereign West African nations, but the work is subtitled, “a Vindication of the African Race,” and contains his most telling ...
... major work, West African Countries and Peoples (London, 1868), Horton gave details of the formation of sovereign West African nations, but the work is subtitled, “a Vindication of the African Race,” and contains his most telling ...
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... major works appeared at the end of the century. Sibthorpe's History of Sierra Leone (London, 1867—1881?), is one of the first historical studies to stress social history.29 In his capacity as a schoolteacher, it was Sibthorpe's purpose ...
... major works appeared at the end of the century. Sibthorpe's History of Sierra Leone (London, 1867—1881?), is one of the first historical studies to stress social history.29 In his capacity as a schoolteacher, it was Sibthorpe's purpose ...
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