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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... British navy (“the Captain, who was a true Englishman, refus'd them, and said he could not answer it, to deliver up any Englishman under English colours”). He saw action with the British fleet, was wounded in battle and recuperated in ...
... British navy (“the Captain, who was a true Englishman, refus'd them, and said he could not answer it, to deliver up any Englishman under English colours”). He saw action with the British fleet, was wounded in battle and recuperated in ...
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... British Dictionary of National Biography. A prolific writer, he is claimed to have composed a number of poems and plays which never reached print. But two years after his death there appeared a two-volume work entitled Letters of the ...
... British Dictionary of National Biography. A prolific writer, he is claimed to have composed a number of poems and plays which never reached print. But two years after his death there appeared a two-volume work entitled Letters of the ...
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... British Museum Library are likely to be Sancho's work.63 The narrative of John Marrant (1755—1791) and the three pamphlets by Jupiter Hammon (c. 1710—1790) are principally religious in purpose. Marrant was born of a free black family in ...
... British Museum Library are likely to be Sancho's work.63 The narrative of John Marrant (1755—1791) and the three pamphlets by Jupiter Hammon (c. 1710—1790) are principally religious in purpose. Marrant was born of a free black family in ...
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... British colonial administration supplemented by the educational and spiritual guidance of a British missionary establishment. Among settler populations, differences in background and make-up produced differing forms of cultural life and ...
... British colonial administration supplemented by the educational and spiritual guidance of a British missionary establishment. Among settler populations, differences in background and make-up produced differing forms of cultural life and ...
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... British missions active in the Sierra Leone Colony since the beginning of the nineteenth century, had come for purposes of Christian conversion, - 3 Alexander Crummell Papers, Schomburg Collection, New York, Ms. C-23. See also “Sermon ...
... British missions active in the Sierra Leone Colony since the beginning of the nineteenth century, had come for purposes of Christian conversion, - 3 Alexander Crummell Papers, Schomburg Collection, New York, Ms. C-23. See also “Sermon ...
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