European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan AfricaThe 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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twentieth century; it has now produced a sizeable amount of poetry, drama and especially prose fiction.4 While written ... swept over vast areas of sub-Saharan Africa with the Muslim conquest during the first few centuries after hijra.
twentieth century; it has now produced a sizeable amount of poetry, drama and especially prose fiction.4 While written ... swept over vast areas of sub-Saharan Africa with the Muslim conquest during the first few centuries after hijra.
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As we survey the influence of Western colonialism on the development of literature over time, we observe that it took on two forms, each with its own characteristic features. Throughout the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth ...
As we survey the influence of Western colonialism on the development of literature over time, we observe that it took on two forms, each with its own characteristic features. Throughout the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth ...
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In Africa, during a large part of the nineteenth century—before racialism became a respectable theory and a beginning was made with the ruthless colonial imperialism that was given free rein at the Berlin Conference—~writers in English ...
In Africa, during a large part of the nineteenth century—before racialism became a respectable theory and a beginning was made with the ruthless colonial imperialism that was given free rein at the Berlin Conference—~writers in English ...
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What South African leader Steve Biko was later to call “Black consciousness” had received full expression as early as the mid-nineteenth century in the voluminous works of Edward W. Blyden, a typical product of the pre-imperialistic ...
What South African leader Steve Biko was later to call “Black consciousness” had received full expression as early as the mid-nineteenth century in the voluminous works of Edward W. Blyden, a typical product of the pre-imperialistic ...
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As to Italy, although it gained control of little-populated coastal areas in Eritrea and Somalia in the last decade of the nineteenth century, her mastery of the most important and promising part of her African empire, Ethiopia, ...
As to Italy, although it gained control of little-populated coastal areas in Eritrea and Somalia in the last decade of the nineteenth century, her mastery of the most important and promising part of her African empire, Ethiopia, ...
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| Titre | European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages |
| Rédacteur | Albert S. Gérard |
| Éditeur | John Benjamins Publishing, 1986 |
| ISBN | 9027274681, 9789027274687 |
| Longueur | 1288 pages |
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