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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... Late Awful Calamity by A. J. and R. A. [Absalom Jones and Richard Allen] (1794).40 Finally, there is Venture Smith, A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture (1798),41 another transcript of an oral account, its Preface recording ...
... Late Awful Calamity by A. J. and R. A. [Absalom Jones and Richard Allen] (1794).40 Finally, there is Venture Smith, A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture (1798),41 another transcript of an oral account, its Preface recording ...
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... Late Ignatius Sancho, an African, To which are Prefixed Memoirs of his Life, which, to all appearances, gives the impression that, like Phillis Wheatley, he was thoroughly assimilated into polite white society. On closer examination ...
... Late Ignatius Sancho, an African, To which are Prefixed Memoirs of his Life, which, to all appearances, gives the impression that, like Phillis Wheatley, he was thoroughly assimilated into polite white society. On closer examination ...
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... late war. How much money has been spent, and how many lives has been lost, to defend their liberty. I must say that I have hoped that God would open their eyes, when they were so much engaged in liberty, to think, of the State of us ...
... late war. How much money has been spent, and how many lives has been lost, to defend their liberty. I must say that I have hoped that God would open their eyes, when they were so much engaged in liberty, to think, of the State of us ...
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... Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia in the Year 1793 expresses its further and more important purpose in a sub-title, A Refutation of Some Censures Thrown upon them in some late Publications. It is a defence of black humaneness and ...
... Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia in the Year 1793 expresses its further and more important purpose in a sub-title, A Refutation of Some Censures Thrown upon them in some late Publications. It is a defence of black humaneness and ...
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... late seventies, under the title After Long Silence. Until recent times, English-language theatre has not been represented on the Liberian literary scene. As late as 1970, Doris Banks Henries asserted: " In Présence Africaine, No. 57 ...
... late seventies, under the title After Long Silence. Until recent times, English-language theatre has not been represented on the Liberian literary scene. As late as 1970, Doris Banks Henries asserted: " In Présence Africaine, No. 57 ...
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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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