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 serving all of British West Africa. In time the name of Fourah Bay came to be associated with a number of ... activities. The accounts of his Niger trips were subsequently published in book form,5 however, and many of his ...
... activity serving all of British West Africa. In time the name of Fourah Bay came to be associated with a number of ... activities. The accounts of his Niger trips were subsequently published in book form,5 however, and many of his ...
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... activity remain confined to West Africa as it did for English. The first book that was published in English by an African from the vast British territories of East and Central Africa was J omo Kenyatta's Facing Mount Kenya (1938). By ...
... activity remain confined to West Africa as it did for English. The first book that was published in English by an African from the vast British territories of East and Central Africa was J omo Kenyatta's Facing Mount Kenya (1938). By ...
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... activity makes him unable to work properly and leads to his dismissal. Socé then takes his protagonist from the old town of Saint-Louis to the modern city of Dakar, where the pattern is repeated. “Le grand mal, source de ses ennuis ...
... activity makes him unable to work properly and leads to his dismissal. Socé then takes his protagonist from the old town of Saint-Louis to the modern city of Dakar, where the pattern is repeated. “Le grand mal, source de ses ennuis ...
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... activities completely different from those which could be found in the performances organized by missions, clubs and ... activity presenting on stage the life of the traditional societies. This new theatre, produced on the initiative of ...
... activities completely different from those which could be found in the performances organized by missions, clubs and ... activity presenting on stage the life of the traditional societies. This new theatre, produced on the initiative of ...
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... activity intended to extol the merits of colonization. All our records concerning the actual conditions in which these activities were carried out reveals an open and liberal pedagogical climate. Béart called on his students to realize ...
... activity intended to extol the merits of colonization. All our records concerning the actual conditions in which these activities were carried out reveals an open and liberal pedagogical climate. Béart called on his students to realize ...
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