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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... hand on so much of West Africa. Crowther was a strong advocate of this doctrine of “the Bible and the plough,” and throughout his long career as head of the Niger mission his primary purpose was to demonstrate its soundness and create a ...
... hand on so much of West Africa. Crowther was a strong advocate of this doctrine of “the Bible and the plough,” and throughout his long career as head of the Niger mission his primary purpose was to demonstrate its soundness and create a ...
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... hand laboratory and clinical evidence. There were, he found, no discernible differences among races in such manifestations as skeletal structure, physiological maturation or mental acuity. “I claim the existence of the attribute of a ...
... hand laboratory and clinical evidence. There were, he found, no discernible differences among races in such manifestations as skeletal structure, physiological maturation or mental acuity. “I claim the existence of the attribute of a ...
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... hand, Johnson was the exemplary Christian missionary, devoted to the task of combating what he regarded as the superstitions and ignorance of paganism and Islam. On the other, he was the unswerving proponent of African culture, custom ...
... hand, Johnson was the exemplary Christian missionary, devoted to the task of combating what he regarded as the superstitions and ignorance of paganism and Islam. On the other, he was the unswerving proponent of African culture, custom ...
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... hand, the Panafrican ideals that at times seemed to move them (as in the title of Casely Hayford's novel) may have smacked of starry-eyed utopianism; on the other hand, their concern with local institutions (as exemplified in Casely ...
... hand, the Panafrican ideals that at times seemed to move them (as in the title of Casely Hayford's novel) may have smacked of starry-eyed utopianism; on the other hand, their concern with local institutions (as exemplified in Casely ...
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... hand, he was also strongly critical of the members of what he called the “Anglo-Fanti” bourgeoisie; it was to them that he applied the word “blinkards” because of their inability to perceive African reality except through the distorting ...
... hand, he was also strongly critical of the members of what he called the “Anglo-Fanti” bourgeoisie; it was to them that he applied the word “blinkards” because of their inability to perceive African reality except through the distorting ...
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