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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... perhaps idle) to speculate on the reason for the dearth and comparative mediocrity of anglophone imaginative writing in colonial Nigeria, the country whence Samuel Crowther had originated and to which he had returned; which had brought ...
... perhaps idle) to speculate on the reason for the dearth and comparative mediocrity of anglophone imaginative writing in colonial Nigeria, the country whence Samuel Crowther had originated and to which he had returned; which had brought ...
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... Perhaps in order to ingratiate himself with the French authorities, Gadeau then wrote Les Anciens combattants (1943), where he glorified the black veterans who had fought in the service of France. As to Les Recrutés de M. Maurice ...
... Perhaps in order to ingratiate himself with the French authorities, Gadeau then wrote Les Anciens combattants (1943), where he glorified the black veterans who had fought in the service of France. As to Les Recrutés de M. Maurice ...
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... perhaps, already in 1953, as Robert Cornevin mentions in his informative account of Le Thédtre en Afrique noire et a Madagascar, Senegalese playwrights produced plays in Wolof; in 1965 N. S. Hopkins reported the production of a number ...
... perhaps, already in 1953, as Robert Cornevin mentions in his informative account of Le Thédtre en Afrique noire et a Madagascar, Senegalese playwrights produced plays in Wolof; in 1965 N. S. Hopkins reported the production of a number ...
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... perhaps be counted as the first real starting-point of modern black South African literature in English.41 Written with perceptiveness and humour, it is one of the best of the numerous Mafeking siege diaries and probably the only one ...
... perhaps be counted as the first real starting-point of modern black South African literature in English.41 Written with perceptiveness and humour, it is one of the best of the numerous Mafeking siege diaries and probably the only one ...
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... perhaps even Leipoldt's home village of Clanwilliam. It is also a well-known historical fact that the rebels captured were publicly executed in the town from which they came. Leipoldt was at the time of these trials special ...
... perhaps even Leipoldt's home village of Clanwilliam. It is also a well-known historical fact that the rebels captured were publicly executed in the town from which they came. Leipoldt was at the time of these trials special ...
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