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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... West African independence. He was strongly critical of British policy throughout the episode,1 6 and was followed by other Western-educated Africans— local merchants, journalists and clergymen, quick to point to the vagaries of colonial ...
... West African independence. He was strongly critical of British policy throughout the episode,1 6 and was followed by other Western-educated Africans— local merchants, journalists and clergymen, quick to point to the vagaries of colonial ...
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... West but sensitive to the ways of traditional life? In such a way might the best of the old and the new be brought together in fruitful communion.19 Although John Mensah Sarbah served with distinction on the Gold Coast legislative ...
... West but sensitive to the ways of traditional life? In such a way might the best of the old and the new be brought together in fruitful communion.19 Although John Mensah Sarbah served with distinction on the Gold Coast legislative ...
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Albert S. Gérard. determination for West Africans within the British empire; more than that, he sought avehicle through ... West, Casely Hayford was sympathetic toward Western modernizing influences and sought their advantages for Africa ...
Albert S. Gérard. determination for West Africans within the British empire; more than that, he sought avehicle through ... West, Casely Hayford was sympathetic toward Western modernizing influences and sought their advantages for Africa ...
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... West African intellectuals were a unique phenomenon on the Black continent. It is not too much to say that they had elaborated all the basic tenets of negritude long before the word came into being. They had created a fully integrated ...
... West African intellectuals were a unique phenomenon on the Black continent. It is not too much to say that they had elaborated all the basic tenets of negritude long before the word came into being. They had created a fully integrated ...
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... West African literature and was the backdrop against which the first successful literary works were conceived. The roots of Ghanaian literature66 stretch back as far as 1909 when The Seductive Coast; Poems Lyrical and Descriptive from West ...
... West African literature and was the backdrop against which the first successful literary works were conceived. The roots of Ghanaian literature66 stretch back as far as 1909 when The Seductive Coast; Poems Lyrical and Descriptive from West ...
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