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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... 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 well into the twelfth and ...
... 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 well into the twelfth and ...
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... produce its own literature. But while its members had been—and from a political viewpoint for a long time remained—content ... produced by representatives of the European diaspora, authors whose ancestors had left Europe, sometimes many ...
... produce its own literature. But while its members had been—and from a political viewpoint for a long time remained—content ... produced by representatives of the European diaspora, authors whose ancestors had left Europe, sometimes many ...
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Albert S. Gérard. twentieth century; it has now produced a sizeable amount of poetry, drama and especially prose ... producing poetry in Arabic to this day. The Muslim cultures of Black Africa have shown uncommon resilience to the impact ...
Albert S. Gérard. twentieth century; it has now produced a sizeable amount of poetry, drama and especially prose ... producing poetry in Arabic to this day. The Muslim cultures of Black Africa have shown uncommon resilience to the impact ...
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... produce realistic prose fiction, but in their diagnosis of the Negro's plight they felt it advisable to lay the emphasis ... produced in Black Africa by 1970 comprised 821 works in 51 African languages and 1,290 works in three European ...
... produce realistic prose fiction, but in their diagnosis of the Negro's plight they felt it advisable to lay the emphasis ... produced in Black Africa by 1970 comprised 821 works in 51 African languages and 1,290 works in three European ...
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... produced in countries that were once part of the British empire, so that it is possible to establish a fundamental ... producing creative writing in English as well. By contrast no vernacular tradition of writing developed in areas that ...
... produced in countries that were once part of the British empire, so that it is possible to establish a fundamental ... producing creative writing in English as well. By contrast no vernacular tradition of writing developed in areas that ...
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