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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... Protest Writing Outside French Africa 1. Portuguese Africa: The New Militancy, by Manuel FERREIRA 2. South Africa: Black Consciousness, by Lewis NKOSI PART THREE: BLACK POWER 263 267 290 305 321 331 341 342 354 379 395 395 434 451 457 ...
... Protest Writing Outside French Africa 1. Portuguese Africa: The New Militancy, by Manuel FERREIRA 2. South Africa: Black Consciousness, by Lewis NKOSI PART THREE: BLACK POWER 263 267 290 305 321 331 341 342 354 379 395 395 434 451 457 ...
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... protest: some were able to rely on the protection of liberal-minded Europeans; in other cases, the white masters themselves might regard writings designed to express unorthodox views about African “cultures”, “pagan” beliefs and customs ...
... protest: some were able to rely on the protection of liberal-minded Europeans; in other cases, the white masters themselves might regard writings designed to express unorthodox views about African “cultures”, “pagan” beliefs and customs ...
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... protest for while its realistic picture of the non-whites” way of life in what was then still a dominion had been anticipated in much vernacular writing, the purpose of these two writers was not to evoke a feeling of moral guilt among ...
... protest for while its realistic picture of the non-whites” way of life in what was then still a dominion had been anticipated in much vernacular writing, the purpose of these two writers was not to evoke a feeling of moral guilt among ...
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... protest poetry and some pieces of realistic prose fiction, any attempts at political emancipation were suppressed with the utmost ruthlessness by the Salazar government. The activist stance of many black, white and mulatto African ...
... protest poetry and some pieces of realistic prose fiction, any attempts at political emancipation were suppressed with the utmost ruthlessness by the Salazar government. The activist stance of many black, white and mulatto African ...
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... protest writers of Portuguese expression were imprisoned at one time or another, especially once the process of emancipation had begun in other parts of the continent, it must be admitted that the intrinsic obtuseness and fitful ...
... protest writers of Portuguese expression were imprisoned at one time or another, especially once the process of emancipation had begun in other parts of the continent, it must be admitted that the intrinsic obtuseness and fitful ...
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