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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... called upon to act their part in regenerated Africa be taught?”1° Horton's vision of university education and independent West African nations anticipated the future by a century, conceived as it was on the eve of Europe's colonial ...
... called upon to act their part in regenerated Africa be taught?”1° Horton's vision of university education and independent West African nations anticipated the future by a century, conceived as it was on the eve of Europe's colonial ...
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... called his younger contemporary. Such advocacy of black white cooperation, said Casely Hayford, would only work for those few idealists who, like Aggrey, could still smile and turn the other check in the face of the insults, the ...
... called his younger contemporary. Such advocacy of black white cooperation, said Casely Hayford, would only work for those few idealists who, like Aggrey, could still smile and turn the other check in the face of the insults, the ...
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... called heathenism. They had recognized the need for Africa to seek entry into the modern world, mainly through a reinterpretation of Christianity, improved education and forms of collective allegiance wider than tribal ones. They had ...
... called heathenism. They had recognized the need for Africa to seek entry into the modern world, mainly through a reinterpretation of Christianity, improved education and forms of collective allegiance wider than tribal ones. They had ...
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... The freed slaves who returned from America to Africa, to settle in the country called Liberia, regarded themselves as refugees, with negative reasons for coming 98 2. CREATIVE WRITING IN ENGLISH: EMERGENCE AND STAGNATION LIBERIA.
... The freed slaves who returned from America to Africa, to settle in the country called Liberia, regarded themselves as refugees, with negative reasons for coming 98 2. CREATIVE WRITING IN ENGLISH: EMERGENCE AND STAGNATION LIBERIA.
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... called Blamadon which, he hopes, will form the nucleus of a national theatre in Liberia. “Blamadon” is the Gola word for “Come let us tell a tale”: indeed, it is the objective of the budding playwright to use the native Liberian ...
... called Blamadon which, he hopes, will form the nucleus of a national theatre in Liberia. “Blamadon” is the Gola word for “Come let us tell a tale”: indeed, it is the objective of the budding playwright to use the native Liberian ...
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