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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... became an early form of writing for the literate and educated. To push the interests of class and respective groups, a small proliferation of newspapers occurred after the war. In Mafeking in 1901 Silas Molema (d. 1927) began Koranta ea ...
... became an early form of writing for the literate and educated. To push the interests of class and respective groups, a small proliferation of newspapers occurred after the war. In Mafeking in 1901 Silas Molema (d. 1927) began Koranta ea ...
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... became a symbol of the sacrifice blacks had made for the British Empire. Many of those who fought hoped that they would be regarded and treated as loyal and equal subjects after the war. Mendi Day became a kind of national memorial day ...
... became a symbol of the sacrifice blacks had made for the British Empire. Many of those who fought hoped that they would be regarded and treated as loyal and equal subjects after the war. Mendi Day became a kind of national memorial day ...
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... became Prime Minister from 1939. While his second administration was characterized by economic growth and a raising of living standards particularly among whites, Afrikaner nationalism was preparing for its final victory in 1948. Soon ...
... became Prime Minister from 1939. While his second administration was characterized by economic growth and a raising of living standards particularly among whites, Afrikaner nationalism was preparing for its final victory in 1948. Soon ...
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... became a Nationalist in 1934, and even an admirer of National Socialism. Some of these poems, therefore, are probably his indirect reaction to Hertzog's coalition, yet his hesitation to make an explicit statement is in accordance with ...
... became a Nationalist in 1934, and even an admirer of National Socialism. Some of these poems, therefore, are probably his indirect reaction to Hertzog's coalition, yet his hesitation to make an explicit statement is in accordance with ...
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... became increasingly institutionalized into apartheid, a system of utmost cruelty and idiocy, bound to generate the conditions for its own ultimate destruction. In the field of creative writing, leaving aside (however reluctantly) the ...
... became increasingly institutionalized into apartheid, a system of utmost cruelty and idiocy, bound to generate the conditions for its own ultimate destruction. In the field of creative writing, leaving aside (however reluctantly) the ...
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