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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... significant part in the decolonization process, at least in certain areas. For political emancipation was in each case the result of a long, multifarious struggle which it would be idle to attempt summarizing here. Focusing on the ...
... significant part in the decolonization process, at least in certain areas. For political emancipation was in each case the result of a long, multifarious struggle which it would be idle to attempt summarizing here. Focusing on the ...
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... developed in space. Thanks to negritude the African literature that first came under the scrutiny of informed world opinion was written in French; to this literature also Lilyan Kesteloot devoted the first significant scholarly work 29.
... developed in space. Thanks to negritude the African literature that first came under the scrutiny of informed world opinion was written in French; to this literature also Lilyan Kesteloot devoted the first significant scholarly work 29.
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... significant exception being Tanzania. Not all the European languages thus imposed upon the continent at one time or another had the same history, literary or otherwise. The sudden emergence of a pleiad of francophone writers in West ...
... significant exception being Tanzania. Not all the European languages thus imposed upon the continent at one time or another had the same history, literary or otherwise. The sudden emergence of a pleiad of francophone writers in West ...
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... significant amount of unorthodox writing, especially poetry, to be published in Portugal and in Africa. Although African writing in Portuguese is of long standing and has produced a number of meaningful works, it was sadly neglected ...
... significant amount of unorthodox writing, especially poetry, to be published in Portugal and in Africa. Although African writing in Portuguese is of long standing and has produced a number of meaningful works, it was sadly neglected ...
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... significant results of the slave trade was the constitution of a sizable black diaspora in the Western hemisphere, and although its members were most shamelessly exploited and oppressed, their own vitality and the power of their host ...
... significant results of the slave trade was the constitution of a sizable black diaspora in the Western hemisphere, and although its members were most shamelessly exploited and oppressed, their own vitality and the power of their host ...
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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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