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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... contributions to the literature of the country state to which they all belong. While the Hausa's contribution to Nigerian literature in English is negligible, the Igbo are responsible for an important proportion of novels in English and ...
... contributions to the literature of the country state to which they all belong. While the Hausa's contribution to Nigerian literature in English is negligible, the Igbo are responsible for an important proportion of novels in English and ...
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... contribution was the greater. By the 1950 census seventy per cent of the Cape Verdian population was mulatto.”2 Towards the end of the fifteenth century, the islands of $50 Tomé and Principe were settled by sugar planters; they soon ...
... contribution was the greater. By the 1950 census seventy per cent of the Cape Verdian population was mulatto.”2 Towards the end of the fifteenth century, the islands of $50 Tomé and Principe were settled by sugar planters; they soon ...
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... contribution to the naval battle at Lepanto, “victoria adversus perfidos turcos”, which rid Venice and Italy of the Turkish threat in 1571 and, for that reason, was also commemorated, though in a different medium, by Titian. Some ...
... contribution to the naval battle at Lepanto, “victoria adversus perfidos turcos”, which rid Venice and Italy of the Turkish threat in 1571 and, for that reason, was also commemorated, though in a different medium, by Titian. Some ...
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... contribution in the middle of the twentieth century.31 The fact remains, however, that the black Latinist from Granada can be seen as a frail and isolated link in a very old tradition, the tradition of African Latin writing, which he ...
... contribution in the middle of the twentieth century.31 The fact remains, however, that the black Latinist from Granada can be seen as a frail and isolated link in a very old tradition, the tradition of African Latin writing, which he ...
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... contribution to creative writing. That lyricism was closely linked in his mind with religion is apparent from another broadside in verse which he had issued in Hartford, Conn, in 1778: An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatley, Ethiopian ...
... contribution to creative writing. That lyricism was closely linked in his mind with religion is apparent from another broadside in verse which he had issued in Hartford, Conn, in 1778: An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatley, Ethiopian ...
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