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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... described as a separate entity: one mostly talks about “Africa and Madagascar” .— There has been, for example, amongst others the Organisation Commune Africaine et Malgache,1°6 and various anthologies of “African and Malagasy” writing ...
... described as a separate entity: one mostly talks about “Africa and Madagascar” .— There has been, for example, amongst others the Organisation Commune Africaine et Malgache,1°6 and various anthologies of “African and Malagasy” writing ...
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... described his tragic predicament as that of a Latin mind under a black skin, but also as that of a proud Malagasy eager to shed the Western disguise imposed upon him. His habit of wearing the traditional robe, the lamba over his Western ...
... described his tragic predicament as that of a Latin mind under a black skin, but also as that of a proud Malagasy eager to shed the Western disguise imposed upon him. His habit of wearing the traditional robe, the lamba over his Western ...
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... described himself as “poete national”. But three years later, he published two slender brochures of a dozen pages each: while Fusées 1964 was printed in Yaoundé, in the collection that he had inaugurated with L'Innombrable symphonie and ...
... described himself as “poete national”. But three years later, he published two slender brochures of a dozen pages each: while Fusées 1964 was printed in Yaoundé, in the collection that he had inaugurated with L'Innombrable symphonie and ...
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... described in the report was nothing but the absence of a coherent policy. Belgian policy oscillated half-way between British indirect rule and French direct administration. The result was, as the French historian Robert Cornevin put it ...
... described in the report was nothing but the absence of a coherent policy. Belgian policy oscillated half-way between British indirect rule and French direct administration. The result was, as the French historian Robert Cornevin put it ...
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... described above; they were almost of necessity recruited from the ranks of those who had studied for the priesthood. The most important and representative were Alexis Kagame, Antoine-Roger Bolamba, Paul Lomami-Tshibamba and Joseph ...
... described above; they were almost of necessity recruited from the ranks of those who had studied for the priesthood. The most important and representative were Alexis Kagame, Antoine-Roger Bolamba, Paul Lomami-Tshibamba and Joseph ...
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