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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... civilization. First, there was the strong sense of community, exemplified in the close ties of extended family, the sharing of the land, or the cooperative care in each village for the young, the aged, the infirm or the helpless. Next ...
... civilization. First, there was the strong sense of community, exemplified in the close ties of extended family, the sharing of the land, or the cooperative care in each village for the young, the aged, the infirm or the helpless. Next ...
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... civilization”, “art”, and “industry”. Let the curriculum, he urged, deal with the history, the geography and other aspects of the world in which the students live; let there be utilitarian courses that stress comparative training in ...
... civilization”, “art”, and “industry”. Let the curriculum, he urged, deal with the history, the geography and other aspects of the world in which the students live; let there be utilitarian courses that stress comparative training in ...
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... civilization, and they had provided a balanced assessment of the two sides of Europe as a bearer of good and of evil. On the one hand, the Panafrican ideals that at times seemed to move them (as in the title of Casely Hayford's novel) ...
... civilization, and they had provided a balanced assessment of the two sides of Europe as a bearer of good and of evil. On the one hand, the Panafrican ideals that at times seemed to move them (as in the title of Casely Hayford's novel) ...
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... civilization in general and French culture in particular. Diagne's hero is a Wolof boy of noble parentage, who has to fight his way against the will and prejudices of his family: he manages to be sent to~the French, instead of the ...
... civilization in general and French culture in particular. Diagne's hero is a Wolof boy of noble parentage, who has to fight his way against the will and prejudices of his family: he manages to be sent to~the French, instead of the ...
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... civilization is purely accidental: an imaginative adolescent given to day-dreaming, he happens to lose the herd of sheep which he is supposed to tend; this unfortunate occurrence puts him to such shame that he leaves his family and his ...
... civilization is purely accidental: an imaginative adolescent given to day-dreaming, he happens to lose the herd of sheep which he is supposed to tend; this unfortunate occurrence puts him to such shame that he leaves his family and his ...
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