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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... late twenties. Yet, such an unusual phenomenon could not have failed to attract attention, provoke admiration and remain in the long memories of this predominantly oral society. There is every reason to believe that L'Eléphant qui ...
... late twenties. Yet, such an unusual phenomenon could not have failed to attract attention, provoke admiration and remain in the long memories of this predominantly oral society. There is every reason to believe that L'Eléphant qui ...
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... late nineteenth-century French poets whom he had read as part of the school curriculum, Esanzo is a highly original achievement which bears witness to the Congolese poet's commitment to the central themes and ideas of the negritude ...
... late nineteenth-century French poets whom he had read as part of the school curriculum, Esanzo is a highly original achievement which bears witness to the Congolese poet's commitment to the central themes and ideas of the negritude ...
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... late 1940s. A. J. COETZEE, TIM COUZENs AND STEPHEN GRAY 1. SOUTH. essays such as Aspects of South African Literature ed. Christopher Heywood (London: Heinemann Educational, 1976). English-Speaking South Africa Today: Proceedings of the ...
... late 1940s. A. J. COETZEE, TIM COUZENs AND STEPHEN GRAY 1. SOUTH. essays such as Aspects of South African Literature ed. Christopher Heywood (London: Heinemann Educational, 1976). English-Speaking South Africa Today: Proceedings of the ...
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... late as 1937 (in Bushveld Doctor) he made statements as controversial then as they are in South Africa today: “Hereditarily, if there be anything in heredity, I am one of those who can see no specific distinctions in the human race and ...
... late as 1937 (in Bushveld Doctor) he made statements as controversial then as they are in South Africa today: “Hereditarily, if there be anything in heredity, I am one of those who can see no specific distinctions in the human race and ...
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... late novel by Modikwe Dikobe (b. 1913), The Marabi Dance (1973). It may have been written as late as the sixties, but it contains the authentic detail and atmosphere which could only be conveyed by one who was steeped in the thirties ...
... late novel by Modikwe Dikobe (b. 1913), The Marabi Dance (1973). It may have been written as late as the sixties, but it contains the authentic detail and atmosphere which could only be conveyed by one who was steeped in the thirties ...
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