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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... narrative prose that was produced in Iceland—the Old Edda, skaldic poetry, the sagas—once the roving, bellicose Vikings had been brought in touch with the literate civilization of North-Western Europe. Saga production takes the story ...
... narrative prose that was produced in Iceland—the Old Edda, skaldic poetry, the sagas—once the roving, bellicose Vikings had been brought in touch with the literate civilization of North-Western Europe. Saga production takes the story ...
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... narrative poetry. The eighteenthcentury epics dealt mainly with the life of Muhammad and his wars against the Christians soon after hijra: they were based on popular Arabic accounts. But in the nineteenth century a process of ...
... narrative poetry. The eighteenthcentury epics dealt mainly with the life of Muhammad and his wars against the Christians soon after hijra: they were based on popular Arabic accounts. But in the nineteenth century a process of ...
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... narratives by former slaves born in Africa. The third characteristic of African diaspora writing at the time was the ... narrative prose and in autobiographical stories. PAUL EDWARDS 3. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY WRITING IN ENGLISH After the ...
... narratives by former slaves born in Africa. The third characteristic of African diaspora writing at the time was the ... narrative prose and in autobiographical stories. PAUL EDWARDS 3. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY WRITING IN ENGLISH After the ...
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... narratives. James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw's autobiography, A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw. . .as Related by Himself. 3 5 Obviously those writers raise a little problem in ...
... narratives. James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw's autobiography, A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw. . .as Related by Himself. 3 5 Obviously those writers raise a little problem in ...
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... Narrative of the Uncommon Suflerings and Surprizing Deliverance 0f Briton Hammon (1760); Jupiter Hammon's Winter Piece (1782), An Address to the Negroes in the State of New— York (1787) and An Evening's Improvement (n.d.); and A Narrative ...
... Narrative of the Uncommon Suflerings and Surprizing Deliverance 0f Briton Hammon (1760); Jupiter Hammon's Winter Piece (1782), An Address to the Negroes in the State of New— York (1787) and An Evening's Improvement (n.d.); and A Narrative ...
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