European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan AfricaThe 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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In this respect, the history of the relations between Africa and Europe—~which is basic in any consideration of African literature in European languages—manifestly falls into two periods: the period when Africans were overtly subjected ...
In this respect, the history of the relations between Africa and Europe—~which is basic in any consideration of African literature in European languages—manifestly falls into two periods: the period when Africans were overtly subjected ...
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overtly subjected to European power in the form either of the slave trade or of colonial imperialism, and the period after they had formally gained their independence. Although few would now be prepared to claim that the passage from ...
overtly subjected to European power in the form either of the slave trade or of colonial imperialism, and the period after they had formally gained their independence. Although few would now be prepared to claim that the passage from ...
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Obviously, then, the period of colonial domination over creative writing did not come to an end simultaneously throughout Africa, just as the various European languages that were to be put to literary uses were not introduced all at the ...
Obviously, then, the period of colonial domination over creative writing did not come to an end simultaneously throughout Africa, just as the various European languages that were to be put to literary uses were not introduced all at the ...
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It would be rather difficult to assign a precise date to the beginning of this intermediate period. What South African leader Steve Biko was later to call “Black consciousness” had received full expression as early as the mid-nineteenth ...
It would be rather difficult to assign a precise date to the beginning of this intermediate period. What South African leader Steve Biko was later to call “Black consciousness” had received full expression as early as the mid-nineteenth ...
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The period of independence, then, as reflected in imaginative writing, was preceded by a phase of crucial importance which was, from a political point of view, still part of the colonial era. Yet it was during those years that ...
The period of independence, then, as reflected in imaginative writing, was preceded by a phase of crucial importance which was, from a political point of view, still part of the colonial era. Yet it was during those years that ...
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| Titre | European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages |
| Rédacteur | Albert S. Gérard |
| Éditeur | John Benjamins Publishing, 1986 |
| ISBN | 9027274681, 9789027274687 |
| Longueur | 1288 pages |
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