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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... shows signs of an objective concern with the cultural tensions created by colonialism, but he found it impossible within the narrow confines of his prison world to see beyond his own predicament and, in his mature poetry, had to create ...
... shows signs of an objective concern with the cultural tensions created by colonialism, but he found it impossible within the narrow confines of his prison world to see beyond his own predicament and, in his mature poetry, had to create ...
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... shows the talent of an able writer combining deep scholarly knowledge of African traditions with a lively story-telling art. The work is actually a cycle of narratives, each relating one of the four destructions of Faraka, the ...
... shows the talent of an able writer combining deep scholarly knowledge of African traditions with a lively story-telling art. The work is actually a cycle of narratives, each relating one of the four destructions of Faraka, the ...
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... shows his intractability as he resolves to plague the explorers with threats of the cruelty and hostility of the interior. The myth of an alien Africa8 is common to traveller-journalists like Thomas Herbert (1606—1682) and his ...
... shows his intractability as he resolves to plague the explorers with threats of the cruelty and hostility of the interior. The myth of an alien Africa8 is common to traveller-journalists like Thomas Herbert (1606—1682) and his ...
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... shows definite and radical changes from the standard home tongue in word-usage and in syntax; Wikar, for example, used the double negative so characteristic of Afrikaans today. This type of linguistic evolution bred in isolation ...
... shows definite and radical changes from the standard home tongue in word-usage and in syntax; Wikar, for example, used the double negative so characteristic of Afrikaans today. This type of linguistic evolution bred in isolation ...
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... shows evidence of a definable evolution, for each of the traveller-writers redefines his forebears. Thus Le Vaillant ... show that the societies of Bushmen, Hottentots and the first “Kaffirs” are by no means anarchic and heathenish ...
... shows evidence of a definable evolution, for each of the traveller-writers redefines his forebears. Thus Le Vaillant ... show that the societies of Bushmen, Hottentots and the first “Kaffirs” are by no means anarchic and heathenish ...
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