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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... importance, because of their association with Rabéarivelo and their significant contribution to the intellectual life ... important articles on the controversial subject of the hain~teny.1°9 These are short poems, often in the form of a ...
... importance, because of their association with Rabéarivelo and their significant contribution to the intellectual life ... important articles on the controversial subject of the hain~teny.1°9 These are short poems, often in the form of a ...
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... important and representative were Alexis Kagame, Antoine-Roger Bolamba, Paul Lomami-Tshibamba and Joseph Saverio ... importance as one of the main sources used by Janheinz Jahn for his influential discussion of black culture, Muntu ...
... important and representative were Alexis Kagame, Antoine-Roger Bolamba, Paul Lomami-Tshibamba and Joseph Saverio ... importance as one of the main sources used by Janheinz Jahn for his influential discussion of black culture, Muntu ...
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... important developments were taking place outside Africa, as the negritude concept, which was to provide the conceptual foundation for Africa's intense struggle towards recognition and independence, was being evolved in Paris. But there ...
... important developments were taking place outside Africa, as the negritude concept, which was to provide the conceptual foundation for Africa's intense struggle towards recognition and independence, was being evolved in Paris. But there ...
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... important among those that have written about South African literature in European languages, i.e. mainly English, are Ezekiel Mphahlele, The African Image (London: Faber, 1962; 2nd rev. ed. 1974) and Lewis Nkosi, Home and Exile (London ...
... important among those that have written about South African literature in European languages, i.e. mainly English, are Ezekiel Mphahlele, The African Image (London: Faber, 1962; 2nd rev. ed. 1974) and Lewis Nkosi, Home and Exile (London ...
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... important proportion of anglophone writing in the country was that produced by non-whites: they did have something to say, they had a sense of vital purpose. Although, then, there came to be a strong element of unity among white and non ...
... important proportion of anglophone writing in the country was that produced by non-whites: they did have something to say, they had a sense of vital purpose. Although, then, there came to be a strong element of unity among white and non ...
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