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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... followed by (Ed). While the scholarly study of African literatures is barely emerging from its infancy, it is the unanimous hope of this book's editor and contributors that their efforts, however inadequate, will foster increased ...
... followed by (Ed). While the scholarly study of African literatures is barely emerging from its infancy, it is the unanimous hope of this book's editor and contributors that their efforts, however inadequate, will foster increased ...
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... followed Vicente's, did his best to imitate the master without having, as Aubrey Bell dryly commented, “a vestige of his lyrical genius or greater skill in devising a plot”; in fact, although he prided himself “that Chiado had nothing ...
... followed Vicente's, did his best to imitate the master without having, as Aubrey Bell dryly commented, “a vestige of his lyrical genius or greater skill in devising a plot”; in fact, although he prided himself “that Chiado had nothing ...
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... followed the normal behaviour of a poet of his time when he took up panegyric poetry, the rules of which, we may recall, had just been codified by another Latin scholar, Julius Caesar Scaliger, in his Poetices libri septem (Lyons, 1561) ...
... followed the normal behaviour of a poet of his time when he took up panegyric poetry, the rules of which, we may recall, had just been codified by another Latin scholar, Julius Caesar Scaliger, in his Poetices libri septem (Lyons, 1561) ...
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... followed by his T ractatus de arte sobrie et accurate philosophana'i (1738). He taught at the universities of Wittenberg and Jena, and was even appointed court councillor by Frederic II of Prussia. Some time in the forties, he returned ...
... followed by his T ractatus de arte sobrie et accurate philosophana'i (1738). He taught at the universities of Wittenberg and Jena, and was even appointed court councillor by Frederic II of Prussia. Some time in the forties, he returned ...
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... followed, not by creoles, but by such liberated Africans as Ajayi Crowther. Further, although christianization and westernization were the goal of the educated blacks both in Sierra Leone and in Liberia, they resented white authority ...
... followed, not by creoles, but by such liberated Africans as Ajayi Crowther. Further, although christianization and westernization were the goal of the educated blacks both in Sierra Leone and in Liberia, they resented white authority ...
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