European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan AfricaThe 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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From the first, the purpose of the HALEL project was to deal with creative writing in European languages produced south of the Sahara. This corpus, however, is typically what mathematicians call a fuzzy set.
From the first, the purpose of the HALEL project was to deal with creative writing in European languages produced south of the Sahara. This corpus, however, is typically what mathematicians call a fuzzy set.
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Although African writing in Portuguese is of long standing and has produced a number of meaningful works, it was sadly neglected outside Portugal until a couple of years after the five colonies had become independent republics.
Although African writing in Portuguese is of long standing and has produced a number of meaningful works, it was sadly neglected outside Portugal until a couple of years after the five colonies had become independent republics.
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One is that before any country can be recognized to have produced a national literature, it must indeed have produced it. Even by the early eighties, several countries in Africa had not yet brought forth a body of creative writing ...
One is that before any country can be recognized to have produced a national literature, it must indeed have produced it. Even by the early eighties, several countries in Africa had not yet brought forth a body of creative writing ...
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... time was the predominance of English, for whereas Juan Latino had been active in Spain, Amo in Germany and Capitein in Holland, genuine African autobiography was mostly produced in England and, to a much smaller extent, in America.
... time was the predominance of English, for whereas Juan Latino had been active in Spain, Amo in Germany and Capitein in Holland, genuine African autobiography was mostly produced in England and, to a much smaller extent, in America.
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... that in Africa produced people of remarkable symmetry, strength and bodily beauty. Living in a lovely land of majestic mountains and flowered valleys crossed by charming streams, the African, said Crummell, grew up strong, healthy, ...
... that in Africa produced people of remarkable symmetry, strength and bodily beauty. Living in a lovely land of majestic mountains and flowered valleys crossed by charming streams, the African, said Crummell, grew up strong, healthy, ...
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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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