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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While, then, the linguistic criterion is not one of purely formal convenience but relates intimately to the manner in which African literatures echoed, each in its own way the Western impact on local cultures, the fact that large areas ...
While, then, the linguistic criterion is not one of purely formal convenience but relates intimately to the manner in which African literatures echoed, each in its own way the Western impact on local cultures, the fact that large areas ...
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... who belonged to the generation that followed Vicente's, did his best to imitate the master without having, as Aubrey Bell dryly commented, “a vestige of his lyrical genius or greater skill in devising a plot”; in fact, although he ...
... who belonged to the generation that followed Vicente's, did his best to imitate the master without having, as Aubrey Bell dryly commented, “a vestige of his lyrical genius or greater skill in devising a plot”; in fact, although he ...
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For it is a well-known fact that among the black population of the peninsula, there were many—whether slaves or freed men did not seem to matter much—who were able to speak perfectly decent Portuguese or Spanish.
For it is a well-known fact that among the black population of the peninsula, there were many—whether slaves or freed men did not seem to matter much—who were able to speak perfectly decent Portuguese or Spanish.
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It was left to Cheikh Anta Diop to tabulate this contribution in the middle of the twentieth century.31 The fact remains, however, that the black Latinist from Granada can be seen as ...
It was left to Cheikh Anta Diop to tabulate this contribution in the middle of the twentieth century.31 The fact remains, however, that the black Latinist from Granada can be seen as ...
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The number of Africans receiving an education in Britain at this time is indicated by the fact that, from Sierra Leone alone, “in 1789 an estimated number of fifty boys and twenty-eight girls. . .were being educated in London, ...
The number of Africans receiving an education in Britain at this time is indicated by the fact that, from Sierra Leone alone, “in 1789 an estimated number of fifty boys and twenty-eight girls. . .were being educated in London, ...
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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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