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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... novel in French by a professional writer. Its author, Massyla Diop, elder half-brother to Birago Diop, had some experience as founder and editor of Le Sénégal moderne before he became editor of the newly-founded Revue in 1925. As only ...
... novel in French by a professional writer. Its author, Massyla Diop, elder half-brother to Birago Diop, had some experience as founder and editor of Le Sénégal moderne before he became editor of the newly-founded Revue in 1925. As only ...
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... novel. In fact the African historical novel in French first emerged in Dahomey when Paul Hazoumé (1890—1980), a school-teacher trained at the William-Ponty school in Senegal, published Doguicimi, a novel of more than 500 pages that ...
... novel. In fact the African historical novel in French first emerged in Dahomey when Paul Hazoumé (1890—1980), a school-teacher trained at the William-Ponty school in Senegal, published Doguicimi, a novel of more than 500 pages that ...
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... novel written by a French civil servant of his acquaintance—Jean-Francis Boeuf's La Soudanaise et son amant (l924)-—sparked off the writing urge in his mind. The result was his first novel, L'Esclave, which was serialized in a local ...
... novel written by a French civil servant of his acquaintance—Jean-Francis Boeuf's La Soudanaise et son amant (l924)-—sparked off the writing urge in his mind. The result was his first novel, L'Esclave, which was serialized in a local ...
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... novel is sociological and resides in the picture of religious antagonism among the christianized middle class of Togo. After independence, Couchoro contributed a great many serials to Togo Presse, a daily paper founded in 1962, which ...
... novel is sociological and resides in the picture of religious antagonism among the christianized middle class of Togo. After independence, Couchoro contributed a great many serials to Togo Presse, a daily paper founded in 1962, which ...
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... novel thus deals with three levels in _Karim's 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 ...
... novel thus deals with three levels in _Karim's 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 ...
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