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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... social status. Launched in January 1945, La Voix du Congolais was intended to serve as a mouthpiece for the black élite of évolués.1 3° Despite its ofiicial character and the paternalistic control to which it was subjected, La Voix du ...
... social status. Launched in January 1945, La Voix du Congolais was intended to serve as a mouthpiece for the black élite of évolués.1 3° Despite its ofiicial character and the paternalistic control to which it was subjected, La Voix du ...
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... social development of the élite for whom it was mainly intended: by launching a new journal in 1960, Documents pour l'action—which became '32 Published in Problémes Sociaux Congolais, No. 77 (1967), 35—140. Congo~Afrique in 1966 and ...
... social development of the élite for whom it was mainly intended: by launching a new journal in 1960, Documents pour l'action—which became '32 Published in Problémes Sociaux Congolais, No. 77 (1967), 35—140. Congo~Afrique in 1966 and ...
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... social spectrum were using the patois as their daily means of communication, became important to newspapers such as De Verzamelaar in Cape Town, founded by the Frenchman Charles Etienne Boniface (1787—1853) and the Portuguese J. Suasso ...
... social spectrum were using the patois as their daily means of communication, became important to newspapers such as De Verzamelaar in Cape Town, founded by the Frenchman Charles Etienne Boniface (1787—1853) and the Portuguese J. Suasso ...
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... social equality, irrespective of colour. Hence such groups as the Transvaal Vigilance Association, headed by the teacher S. M. Makgatho, were formed after the turn of the century. Petitions, protest letters and political pamphlets ...
... social equality, irrespective of colour. Hence such groups as the Transvaal Vigilance Association, headed by the teacher S. M. Makgatho, were formed after the turn of the century. Petitions, protest letters and political pamphlets ...
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... social problems. In the early works of the century one finds the beginnings of a social realism that will continue into the following period. An example is the first book of “Dutch-Afrikaans” sketches of J. Lub (1868—1926), Eenvoudige ...
... social problems. In the early works of the century one finds the beginnings of a social realism that will continue into the following period. An example is the first book of “Dutch-Afrikaans” sketches of J. Lub (1868—1926), Eenvoudige ...
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