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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... activity in F rench.121 The first was the tardiness of Belgian authorities in setting up their administration, due itself to the fact that from the Berlin treaty of 1885 to the formal annexation of the Congo by the Belgian government in ...
... activity in F rench.121 The first was the tardiness of Belgian authorities in setting up their administration, due itself to the fact that from the Berlin treaty of 1885 to the formal annexation of the Congo by the Belgian government in ...
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... activities of the “Union Africaine des Arts et des Lettres” (U.A.A.L.). As the war was coming to an end, the colonial administration was faced with a peculiar situation characterized by the growing shortage df younger men among its ...
... activities of the “Union Africaine des Arts et des Lettres” (U.A.A.L.). As the war was coming to an end, the colonial administration was faced with a peculiar situation characterized by the growing shortage df younger men among its ...
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... activity at the Cape. But the Huguenot influx contributed to the growth of the number of free burghers, the legal farmers, and led to increasing dissension between them and the officials of the company. As some of the latter were ...
... activity at the Cape. But the Huguenot influx contributed to the growth of the number of free burghers, the legal farmers, and led to increasing dissension between them and the officials of the company. As some of the latter were ...
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... activity centering on fictional traveller-boasters like the mythical Baron Munchausen, whose mockery of travellers' tales of strange wonders and marvellous oddities is in line with Othello's own. The pragmatic satirists of Augustan ...
... activity centering on fictional traveller-boasters like the mythical Baron Munchausen, whose mockery of travellers' tales of strange wonders and marvellous oddities is in line with Othello's own. The pragmatic satirists of Augustan ...
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... activity beyond that dissemi' nated by the internal press and its related publications in the fields of biography and autobiography. So extensively absorbing did the war prove, nevertheless, that it created a vogue which is ...
... activity beyond that dissemi' nated by the internal press and its related publications in the fields of biography and autobiography. So extensively absorbing did the war prove, nevertheless, that it created a vogue which is ...
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