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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... values and the sources of his power, and eventually, to proclaim their own values and recover their freedom and independence. It was as part of this complex process that literary activity in European languages spread among the more ...
... values and the sources of his power, and eventually, to proclaim their own values and recover their freedom and independence. It was as part of this complex process that literary activity in European languages spread among the more ...
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... values of their cultures and determined to wrench the tools of self-government from the hands of those who were still their masters. Indeed, the literary explosion of the fifties in French heralded the rapid growth of imaginative ...
... values of their cultures and determined to wrench the tools of self-government from the hands of those who were still their masters. Indeed, the literary explosion of the fifties in French heralded the rapid growth of imaginative ...
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... values. As was the scholarly custom at the time, and as Juan Latino had done two centuries earlier, they wrote in Latin, and their work does not belong to creative literature, except for the only remaining poem of Francis Williams and a ...
... values. As was the scholarly custom at the time, and as Juan Latino had done two centuries earlier, they wrote in Latin, and their work does not belong to creative literature, except for the only remaining poem of Francis Williams and a ...
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... values. Each contained a mixture of both within himself, but each advocated his own amalgam as the ideal. Both thoroughgoing nationalists, intent on productive self-direction for their country. Nevertheless, in their mutual hostility ...
... values. Each contained a mixture of both within himself, but each advocated his own amalgam as the ideal. Both thoroughgoing nationalists, intent on productive self-direction for their country. Nevertheless, in their mutual hostility ...
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... values, of communion with nature and of communal life; they had brought out the rationale underlying many indigenous institutions, from polygamy through communal ownership of land to native systems of government and so-called heathenism ...
... values, of communion with nature and of communal life; they had brought out the rationale underlying many indigenous institutions, from polygamy through communal ownership of land to native systems of government and so-called heathenism ...
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