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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... beginning and end of any of them. The second dimension of African literary history is related to the location of its component parts in space. Both aspects are interconnected, for the manner in which African literature and literary ...
... beginning and end of any of them. The second dimension of African literary history is related to the location of its component parts in space. Both aspects are interconnected, for the manner in which African literature and literary ...
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... beginning of the seventeenth century, some of them at least have been reprinted several times since.15 It was also during the first half of the sixteenth century that satirical poems were composed by one Captain Antonio Dias de Macedo ...
... beginning of the seventeenth century, some of them at least have been reprinted several times since.15 It was also during the first half of the sixteenth century that satirical poems were composed by one Captain Antonio Dias de Macedo ...
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... beginning of the sixteenth century in pre-dramatic dialogues in Portuguese and in Castilian.21 Already at that early stage, the negro is mainly regarded—in Lemuel Johnson's graphic phrase—as “devil, gargoyle and buffoon”.22 Although a ...
... beginning of the sixteenth century in pre-dramatic dialogues in Portuguese and in Castilian.21 Already at that early stage, the negro is mainly regarded—in Lemuel Johnson's graphic phrase—as “devil, gargoyle and buffoon”.22 Although a ...
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... beginning either of Afro-American literature or of a modern African literature born from cross-fertilization with the Western world:35 the two aspects are obviously not to be dissociated. Of the many books that were issued under alleged ...
... beginning either of Afro-American literature or of a modern African literature born from cross-fertilization with the Western world:35 the two aspects are obviously not to be dissociated. Of the many books that were issued under alleged ...
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... beginning: Pardon the liberty taken in troubling you with this few lines but as there is Several Ships now going to new Brunswick I could wish to have your answer that I might be able to gived the black settlers there some kind of ...
... beginning: Pardon the liberty taken in troubling you with this few lines but as there is Several Ships now going to new Brunswick I could wish to have your answer that I might be able to gived the black settlers there some kind of ...
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