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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... poetry (La Coupe de Cendres, 1924; Sylves, 1927; Volumes, 1928) contains many of the themes of his later poetry, but the form and language are those of the French poets of the nineteenth century and the minor—if fashionable—French poets ...
... poetry (La Coupe de Cendres, 1924; Sylves, 1927; Volumes, 1928) contains many of the themes of his later poetry, but the form and language are those of the French poets of the nineteenth century and the minor—if fashionable—French poets ...
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... poetic sensibility underwent a profound transformation, and with it the quality and style of his poetry: he abandoned the conventional metres, fixed-form poems and borrowed language of his early poetry, substituting for them a masterly ...
... poetic sensibility underwent a profound transformation, and with it the quality and style of his poetry: he abandoned the conventional metres, fixed-form poems and borrowed language of his early poetry, substituting for them a masterly ...
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... poetry had somehow driven him to the notion that poetic genius was inevitably associated with various forms of abnormality, such as reckless profligacy and chronic indebtedness, almost permanent debauchery, including homosexuality, ill ...
... poetry had somehow driven him to the notion that poetic genius was inevitably associated with various forms of abnormality, such as reckless profligacy and chronic indebtedness, almost permanent debauchery, including homosexuality, ill ...
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... poetry is self-centred, but he wants it this way, because he has chosen to be the ambassador of his people, who must keep their gaze turned on him. Rabéarivelo's early poetry shows signs of an objective concern with the cultural ...
... poetry is self-centred, but he wants it this way, because he has chosen to be the ambassador of his people, who must keep their gaze turned on him. Rabéarivelo's early poetry shows signs of an objective concern with the cultural ...
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... poetry creates a vision of human experience. . Madagascar has probably had very little influence on the poetry of the African continent. The preoccupations of her greatest poet were irrelevant to a committed generation. Yet in their ...
... poetry creates a vision of human experience. . Madagascar has probably had very little influence on the poetry of the African continent. The preoccupations of her greatest poet were irrelevant to a committed generation. Yet in their ...
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