European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan AfricaThe 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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This ambivalence was apparent in the writings of another leading emigré from America, Alexander Crummell (1819—1898), a black clergyman who lived in Liberia for two decades beginning in 1853 and who published numerous essays dealing ...
This ambivalence was apparent in the writings of another leading emigré from America, Alexander Crummell (1819—1898), a black clergyman who lived in Liberia for two decades beginning in 1853 and who published numerous essays dealing ...
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... the Fanti of Southern Ghana, these Sierra Leone expatriates, whose. role was roughly similar to that of Irish and Anglo-Saxonmonks on the European continent at the beginning of the Middle Ages, found a soil that had been prepared.
... the Fanti of Southern Ghana, these Sierra Leone expatriates, whose. role was roughly similar to that of Irish and Anglo-Saxonmonks on the European continent at the beginning of the Middle Ages, found a soil that had been prepared.
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Through Casely-Hayford, this generation formed a link between the didactic and polemical use of English that had prevailed with Horton and Blyden, and the imaginative writing that was just beginning to emerge in the European language.
Through Casely-Hayford, this generation formed a link between the didactic and polemical use of English that had prevailed with Horton and Blyden, and the imaginative writing that was just beginning to emerge in the European language.
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But both occupy an intermediary position in the history of the Senegalese novel of manners which had made a beginning with Massyla Diop and was to culminate in the work of Sembéne Ousmane. Both were fundamentally preoccupied with ...
But both occupy an intermediary position in the history of the Senegalese novel of manners which had made a beginning with Massyla Diop and was to culminate in the work of Sembéne Ousmane. Both were fundamentally preoccupied with ...
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When the first theatrical performances took place at the beginning of the 1930s, there already existed in Africa a theatre of a European type. The missions had long used the stage as a means of religious propaganda.
When the first theatrical performances took place at the beginning of the 1930s, there already existed in Africa a theatre of a European type. The missions had long used the stage as a means of religious propaganda.
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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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