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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... critical analysis of contemporary society with Nini, mulatresse du Sénégal which first appeared serially in the newly founded Présence Africaine in 1947—48. Whereas Tounka was printed in book form in Dakar (1952) before a considerably ...
... critical analysis of contemporary society with Nini, mulatresse du Sénégal which first appeared serially in the newly founded Présence Africaine in 1947—48. Whereas Tounka was printed in book form in Dakar (1952) before a considerably ...
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... critical articles, acted as filters for literary ideas and as indicators of the favourite literary models—the latter being mostly the nineteenth-century French Romantics and Symbolists, and their early twentiethcentury descendants and ...
... critical articles, acted as filters for literary ideas and as indicators of the favourite literary models—the latter being mostly the nineteenth-century French Romantics and Symbolists, and their early twentiethcentury descendants and ...
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... critical early sixties, the “Bibliotheque de l'Etoile” was a major organ of intellectual and ideological confrontation, but it did not play more than a very minor role in the development of imaginative writing. After independence, its ...
... critical early sixties, the “Bibliotheque de l'Etoile” was a major organ of intellectual and ideological confrontation, but it did not play more than a very minor role in the development of imaginative writing. After independence, its ...
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... critical or historical: those that are usually live in exile and are cut off from local developments and the local environment.4 As to the British section of the population, since its authors and critics were for a long time content to ...
... critical or historical: those that are usually live in exile and are cut off from local developments and the local environment.4 As to the British section of the population, since its authors and critics were for a long time content to ...
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... critical attitude of the writer towards his society and its exploitative administration, and his sarcastic and vehement attacks on the governor form the first protest literature in South Africa. He was eventually imprisoned for thirteen ...
... critical attitude of the writer towards his society and its exploitative administration, and his sarcastic and vehement attacks on the governor form the first protest literature in South Africa. He was eventually imprisoned for thirteen ...
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