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 and even opened a school there: “In the reign of King Joao III,” writes Brother Luis de Sousa, “one native of the Congo Kingdom came to Lisbon. Being of a jet-black body yet of a conduct and soul as bright as crystal, he kept a ...
... century and even opened a school there: “In the reign of King Joao III,” writes Brother Luis de Sousa, “one native of the Congo Kingdom came to Lisbon. Being of a jet-black body yet of a conduct and soul as bright as crystal, he kept a ...
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... century, official interest turned away from the Kongo to focus on present-day Angola. But whereas relations with the Kongo kingdom had been of an essentially commercial nature, in 1571 a charter for the military conquest of Angola was ...
... century, official interest turned away from the Kongo to focus on present-day Angola. But whereas relations with the Kongo kingdom had been of an essentially commercial nature, in 1571 a charter for the military conquest of Angola was ...
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... 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 who was born in Angola and was ...
... 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 who was born in Angola and was ...
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... century, they did not see print. Their manuscripts vanished.18 One of the first grammars was compiled by Pedro Dias, a Jesuit from Brazil. His little Arte da lingua de Angola (i.e. Kimbundu) appeared in Lisbon in 1697. Early contacts ...
... century, they did not see print. Their manuscripts vanished.18 One of the first grammars was compiled by Pedro Dias, a Jesuit from Brazil. His little Arte da lingua de Angola (i.e. Kimbundu) appeared in Lisbon in 1697. Early contacts ...
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... century, the Portuguese had a ~de facto monopoly over trade relations with the West African coast. It was recognized de jure after the peace of 1479 between Alfonso V of Portugal and the Catholic monarchs of Spain. Portuguese sailors ...
... century, the Portuguese had a ~de facto monopoly over trade relations with the West African coast. It was recognized de jure after the peace of 1479 between Alfonso V of Portugal and the Catholic monarchs of Spain. Portuguese sailors ...
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