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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... race, as manifested in skin colour, could be regarded as a valid criterion. It was Senghor, it seems, who, during ... racial complications that arose in Portuguese Africa, the Republic of South Africa and Zimbabwe, and to which we shall ...
... race, as manifested in skin colour, could be regarded as a valid criterion. It was Senghor, it seems, who, during ... racial complications that arose in Portuguese Africa, the Republic of South Africa and Zimbabwe, and to which we shall ...
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... racial discrimination as embodied first in dofia Ana herself, and later in another suitor, the Moorish convert Fernando. Finally, the successful life and conduct of Latino, taken as a whole, are in striking contrast with the complete ...
... racial discrimination as embodied first in dofia Ana herself, and later in another suitor, the Moorish convert Fernando. Finally, the successful life and conduct of Latino, taken as a whole, are in striking contrast with the complete ...
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... race. A servant, who lived several years in his family... had acquired, without assistance, a considerable knowledge of .the French language, and had mastered the rudiments of the Latin.”45 In a footnote, Roscoe includes an interesting ...
... race. A servant, who lived several years in his family... had acquired, without assistance, a considerable knowledge of .the French language, and had mastered the rudiments of the Latin.”45 In a footnote, Roscoe includes an interesting ...
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... race emerges even in joking moods: blessed times for a poor blacky grocer to hang or drown in (Letter CXIV) , Figure to yourself, my dear Sir, a man of convexity of belly exceeding Falstaff—and a black face into the bargain (Letter ...
... race emerges even in joking moods: blessed times for a poor blacky grocer to hang or drown in (Letter CXIV) , Figure to yourself, my dear Sir, a man of convexity of belly exceeding Falstaff—and a black face into the bargain (Letter ...
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... race. He writes of his “dear fellow servants and brothers, Africans by nation” and had, it appears, been accused of “meddling” in the politics of slavery: “It hath been reported that I had petitioned the court of Hartford against ...
... race. He writes of his “dear fellow servants and brothers, Africans by nation” and had, it appears, been accused of “meddling” in the politics of slavery: “It hath been reported that I had petitioned the court of Hartford against ...
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