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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... especially from England with Robert Knox's Races of Men (London, 1850) and from France with Gobineau's far more influential Essai sur l 'inégalité des races humaines (Paris, 1853). Horton's interest in West Africa and its future brought ...
... especially from England with Robert Knox's Races of Men (London, 1850) and from France with Gobineau's far more influential Essai sur l 'inégalité des races humaines (Paris, 1853). Horton's interest in West Africa and its future brought ...
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... especially in Nigeria, this preparatory phase was to give way to an unparalleled explosion in the 19605, Liberian writing was to evolve very slowly and can hardly claim even now to have reached a level comparable to that of the other ...
... especially in Nigeria, this preparatory phase was to give way to an unparalleled explosion in the 19605, Liberian writing was to evolve very slowly and can hardly claim even now to have reached a level comparable to that of the other ...
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... especially Africa.”“'5 It traces the life-history of Blama, a disowned son of the nation of GondOlia, who, after years of being rebuffed, succeeds in raising his people from the depths of depravity and backwardness to the zenith of ...
... especially Africa.”“'5 It traces the life-history of Blama, a disowned son of the nation of GondOlia, who, after years of being rebuffed, succeeds in raising his people from the depths of depravity and backwardness to the zenith of ...
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... especially when we consider that the writer was using a foreign language and an alien genre. It is carefully constructed, and there is every reason to believe that it faithfully reproduces the conflicts arising out of the Western impact ...
... especially when we consider that the writer was using a foreign language and an alien genre. It is carefully constructed, and there is every reason to believe that it faithfully reproduces the conflicts arising out of the Western impact ...
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... especially in Paris. Jazz was spreading from America, cubist painters and sculptors had been for two decades seeking inspiration from African masks; in 1921, one of the more fashionable younger writers, Blaise Cendrars, published his ...
... especially in Paris. Jazz was spreading from America, cubist painters and sculptors had been for two decades seeking inspiration from African masks; in 1921, one of the more fashionable younger writers, Blaise Cendrars, published his ...
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