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 and express this experience in our poetry.” They would no longer write about local flowers and animals, the customs and history of Afrikaners—all the things discovered and depicted by previous poets: Poetry to us is a high and ...
... human and express this experience in our poetry.” They would no longer write about local flowers and animals, the customs and history of Afrikaners—all the things discovered and depicted by previous poets: Poetry to us is a high and ...
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... human psyche for the powers which rule life. The confessional verse, of which he was the most successful exponent among the Dertigers, makes way for an “objective correlative” type of poetry in which a figure or an animal or a ...
... human psyche for the powers which rule life. The confessional verse, of which he was the most successful exponent among the Dertigers, makes way for an “objective correlative” type of poetry in which a figure or an animal or a ...
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... human, fair and true; rejoice to see, like birds, All human souls soar happily and free... This attitude, together with hints of a more vigorous African nationalism, can be detected in Dhlomo's best-known work, a long poem entitled ...
... human, fair and true; rejoice to see, like birds, All human souls soar happily and free... This attitude, together with hints of a more vigorous African nationalism, can be detected in Dhlomo's best-known work, a long poem entitled ...
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... human rights, inevitably leads to physical protest and militant political opposition. The treason trial of 1958, the role of Bram Fischer, the Sharpeville attack of 1960, the Cottesloe Church Conference of 1960 and the launching of the ...
... human rights, inevitably leads to physical protest and militant political opposition. The treason trial of 1958, the role of Bram Fischer, the Sharpeville attack of 1960, the Cottesloe Church Conference of 1960 and the launching of the ...
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... Human and Rousseau, 1973). For bibliographical information, see M. N. van Erdelen, Some Sestigers: A Bibliography (Johannesburg: University of the Witwatersrand, 1970). 8“ M. S. van der Walt, Boerneef (Izak Wilhelmus van der Merwe) ...
... Human and Rousseau, 1973). For bibliographical information, see M. N. van Erdelen, Some Sestigers: A Bibliography (Johannesburg: University of the Witwatersrand, 1970). 8“ M. S. van der Walt, Boerneef (Izak Wilhelmus van der Merwe) ...
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