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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... intellectual influence of an English-speaking black community. To this should presumably be added the greater flexibility of the English language, acceptable knowledge of which can more easily be achieved than is the case with French ...
... intellectual influence of an English-speaking black community. To this should presumably be added the greater flexibility of the English language, acceptable knowledge of which can more easily be achieved than is the case with French ...
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... intellectual awareness and in the mastery of novelistic techniques. But both occupy an intermediary position in the history of the Senegalese novel of manners which had made a beginning with Massyla Diop and was to culminate in the work ...
... intellectual awareness and in the mastery of novelistic techniques. But both occupy an intermediary position in the history of the Senegalese novel of manners which had made a beginning with Massyla Diop and was to culminate in the work ...
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... intellectual isolation combined with a desire to emulate the poets of France tended to make Antananarivo of the twenties and the thirties a lively but sterile literary hothouse. Only Rabéarivelo managed ultimately to escape into a more ...
... intellectual isolation combined with a desire to emulate the poets of France tended to make Antananarivo of the twenties and the thirties a lively but sterile literary hothouse. Only Rabéarivelo managed ultimately to escape into a more ...
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... intellectual and artistic life is a lively, if inward-turning one. Whatever the reason—perhaps it has something to do with the isolation of island life—there is something immensely sad about much modern Malagasy poetry, preoccupied as ...
... intellectual and artistic life is a lively, if inward-turning one. Whatever the reason—perhaps it has something to do with the isolation of island life—there is something immensely sad about much modern Malagasy poetry, preoccupied as ...
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... intellectual élite: for all its condescending paternalism, it acted as a hindrance to the social advancement and intellectual development of the Congolese people. Contrary to what happened in the African colonies of France, Britain and ...
... intellectual élite: for all its condescending paternalism, it acted as a hindrance to the social advancement and intellectual development of the Congolese people. Contrary to what happened in the African colonies of France, Britain and ...
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