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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... Human Species, and it has been argued above that the reviser may well have been Olaudah Equiano. Though the book contains a description of Cugoano's early life in what is now Ghana, the account is a brief one, and most of the book is ...
... Human Species, and it has been argued above that the reviser may well have been Olaudah Equiano. Though the book contains a description of Cugoano's early life in what is now Ghana, the account is a brief one, and most of the book is ...
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... human being caused linguistic studies to make great strides, missionary scholars such as the illustrious Koelle being followed, not by creoles, but by such liberated Africans as Ajayi Crowther. Further, although christianization and ...
... human being caused linguistic studies to make great strides, missionary scholars such as the illustrious Koelle being followed, not by creoles, but by such liberated Africans as Ajayi Crowther. Further, although christianization and ...
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... human rights, whereby free slaves were in some cases granted equal status with whites. Tulbagh's ambition was to turn the Cape into a leisured cultural haven as well, and he founded the first library in 1761. Under his encouragement a ...
... human rights, whereby free slaves were in some cases granted equal status with whites. Tulbagh's ambition was to turn the Cape into a leisured cultural haven as well, and he founded the first library in 1761. Under his encouragement a ...
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... human perplexity and degradation. Using a young burgher, Sarel Erasmus, as his mouthpiece throughout the series, Blackburn found his satirical sketches broadening into picaresque naturalism, a style which could include a full panorama ...
... human perplexity and degradation. Using a young burgher, Sarel Erasmus, as his mouthpiece throughout the series, Blackburn found his satirical sketches broadening into picaresque naturalism, a style which could include a full panorama ...
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... human race and that recognize all mankind as belonging to one family, however diversified by colour, custom, or creed its various components may be.” His poems and plays have thus been extensively studied and evaluated in terms of ...
... human race and that recognize all mankind as belonging to one family, however diversified by colour, custom, or creed its various components may be.” His poems and plays have thus been extensively studied and evaluated in terms of ...
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