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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... present editor at the F .I.L.L.M. Conference held in Sydney in 1975. It was officially confirmed and accepted as part of the “Comparative History of Literature in European Languages” at the International Comparative Literature ...
... present editor at the F .I.L.L.M. Conference held in Sydney in 1975. It was officially confirmed and accepted as part of the “Comparative History of Literature in European Languages” at the International Comparative Literature ...
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... present context, an even more intricate problem arises: it has to do with the taxonomic principles that will make it possible to categorize or carve up the corpus into manageable sub-sets along as rational and practicable lines as can ...
... present context, an even more intricate problem arises: it has to do with the taxonomic principles that will make it possible to categorize or carve up the corpus into manageable sub-sets along as rational and practicable lines as can ...
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... present-day Tanzania, it would seem that for purposes of literary classification, Eastern Africa should also include Zambia and Malawi: from 1954 to 1963, these two countries were part of the Central African Federation under the names ...
... present-day Tanzania, it would seem that for purposes of literary classification, Eastern Africa should also include Zambia and Malawi: from 1954 to 1963, these two countries were part of the Central African Federation under the names ...
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... present book is designed to illustrate the birth and growth of African literary scholarship until the late seventies, the purpose of the bibliographical footnotes is to update the above-mentioned works and to list as much relevant ...
... present book is designed to illustrate the birth and growth of African literary scholarship until the late seventies, the purpose of the bibliographical footnotes is to update the above-mentioned works and to list as much relevant ...
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... present state of our knowledge, there is every reason to believe that the seventeenth century was entirely barren of any writing by black Africans wherever the destructive rapaciousness of Europe made itself felt. Slave owners and their ...
... present state of our knowledge, there is every reason to believe that the seventeenth century was entirely barren of any writing by black Africans wherever the destructive rapaciousness of Europe made itself felt. Slave owners and their ...
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| Titre | European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages |
| Rédacteur | Albert S. Gérard |
| Éditeur | John Benjamins Publishing, 1986 |
| ISBN | 9027274681, 9789027274687 |
| Longueur | 1288 pages |
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