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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... published a number of Rabéarivelo's poems and it is clear from his own reviews of the poet's first volumes how much the latter owed to the Frenchman's encouragement and influence. The second review was called Capricorne and edited ...
... published a number of Rabéarivelo's poems and it is clear from his own reviews of the poet's first volumes how much the latter owed to the Frenchman's encouragement and influence. The second review was called Capricorne and edited ...
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... published in Paris and should be discussed in a different context. The other is Flavien Ranaivo (b. 1913),1 14 whose three volumes of verse, all published in Antananarivo—L'Ombre et le vent (1947), Mes chansons de toujours (1955) and Le ...
... published in Paris and should be discussed in a different context. The other is Flavien Ranaivo (b. 1913),1 14 whose three volumes of verse, all published in Antananarivo—L'Ombre et le vent (1947), Mes chansons de toujours (1955) and Le ...
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... published as Korrongo: Das Lied der Waganna (1961). Here as in Der Junge aus Duala, Misipo shows the talent of an able writer combining deep scholarly knowledge of African traditions with a lively story-telling art. The work is actually ...
... published as Korrongo: Das Lied der Waganna (1961). Here as in Der Junge aus Duala, Misipo shows the talent of an able writer combining deep scholarly knowledge of African traditions with a lively story-telling art. The work is actually ...
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... published in Yaoundé, thus paving the way for the exceptional growth of local book-printing after independence. Tante Bella by Joseph Owono (b. 1921) was the first novel to be published in Cameroon. Finished in 1954, it was printed at ...
... published in Yaoundé, thus paving the way for the exceptional growth of local book-printing after independence. Tante Bella by Joseph Owono (b. 1921) was the first novel to be published in Cameroon. Finished in 1954, it was printed at ...
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... published in the review Togo—Cameroun in 1934, launched a fashion of tropical romanticism and marked the beginning of the ballads, sonnets and odes which appeared in the journals of the period.120 The one poet who stands out is Louis ...
... published in the review Togo—Cameroun in 1934, launched a fashion of tropical romanticism and marked the beginning of the ballads, sonnets and odes which appeared in the journals of the period.120 The one poet who stands out is Louis ...
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