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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... poet. His inaugural lecture of 1565 on the famous poets of antiquity is unfortunately lost, but already in 1566 he published in Madrid a quarto of Latin funeral verse: Epitafios de la translacio'n de los cuerpos reales (Epigrammas ...
... poet. His inaugural lecture of 1565 on the famous poets of antiquity is unfortunately lost, but already in 1566 he published in Madrid a quarto of Latin funeral verse: Epitafios de la translacio'n de los cuerpos reales (Epigrammas ...
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... poet laureate of Liberia, and president and founder of the Association of Liberian Writers, taught World Literature at the university while producing his poetry. His only work of prose, described by him as “a satirical treatise on moral ...
... poet laureate of Liberia, and president and founder of the Association of Liberian Writers, taught World Literature at the university while producing his poetry. His only work of prose, described by him as “a satirical treatise on moral ...
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... poet's ingenious use of African traditions prompted Dempster to describe him as “one of West Africa's outstanding jungle poets.” While such a description is debatable and possibly ill-contrived, it is noteworthy that Moore's syntax is ...
... poet's ingenious use of African traditions prompted Dempster to describe him as “one of West Africa's outstanding jungle poets.” While such a description is debatable and possibly ill-contrived, it is noteworthy that Moore's syntax is ...
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... poet's rhetorical elegance and optimism. “Whither Bound, 0 Africa?” expresses an intellectual's perplexity while contemplating the tribal tradition from which the poet himself was alienated by a Christian upbringing and European ...
... poet's rhetorical elegance and optimism. “Whither Bound, 0 Africa?” expresses an intellectual's perplexity while contemplating the tribal tradition from which the poet himself was alienated by a Christian upbringing and European ...
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... poet laureate of any régime. He is by far the most modern of the Gold Coast poets, because of his European sense of existential despair. It would be interesting to compare him with the Malagasy Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo in terms of their ...
... poet laureate of any régime. He is by far the most modern of the Gold Coast poets, because of his European sense of existential despair. It would be interesting to compare him with the Malagasy Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo in terms of their ...
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