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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... century, that is, almost at the time of the birth of English writing in West Africa. The growth of this literature throughout the twentieth century, even under the Salazar regime, may have been due in part to the activity of many ...
... century, that is, almost at the time of the birth of English writing in West Africa. The growth of this literature throughout the twentieth century, even under the Salazar regime, may have been due in part to the activity of many ...
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... century of independent history dotted with military coups, tribal confrontations and civil wars makes it clear that for many Africans what is called in sociological parlance the “reference group”, the collectivity to which he feels ...
... century of independent history dotted with military coups, tribal confrontations and civil wars makes it clear that for many Africans what is called in sociological parlance the “reference group”, the collectivity to which he feels ...
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... centuries went by. From the beginning of the sixteenth to the end of the eighteenth century, the staple commodities that were the object of such trade as the workings of the free market gave rise to worthless trinkets and weapons, which ...
... centuries went by. From the beginning of the sixteenth to the end of the eighteenth century, the staple commodities that were the object of such trade as the workings of the free market gave rise to worthless trinkets and weapons, which ...
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... century, the Portuguese established bases and strongholds all along the African coast. After Senegal, the Guinea coast was reached about 1445. The Cape Verde islands were discovered during the following decade; previously uninhabited ...
... century, the Portuguese established bases and strongholds all along the African coast. After Senegal, the Guinea coast was reached about 1445. The Cape Verde islands were discovered during the following decade; previously uninhabited ...
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... century in Brazil and Portugal, but actually “introduced centuries ago”, as their modern editor, Fernando Reis, maintains.4 His claim rings true since similar dramatizations of the same stories are performed in widely scattered places ...
... century in Brazil and Portugal, but actually “introduced centuries ago”, as their modern editor, Fernando Reis, maintains.4 His claim rings true since similar dramatizations of the same stories are performed in widely scattered places ...
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