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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... produced a long and evocative novel, Ethiopia Unbound, which dealt with a wide range of racial issues.17 Mensah Sarbah's literary output was less eclectic—three substantial volumes covering the customary law of the Fanti, most ...
... produced a long and evocative novel, Ethiopia Unbound, which dealt with a wide range of racial issues.17 Mensah Sarbah's literary output was less eclectic—three substantial volumes covering the customary law of the Fanti, most ...
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... produced in Sierra Leone and in Liberia, he was a man of two worlds. Ideally, these worlds complemented each other, but often they were at war, pulling the individual now this way and now that. In Nigeria, two contemporaries of Casely ...
... produced in Sierra Leone and in Liberia, he was a man of two worlds. Ideally, these worlds complemented each other, but often they were at war, pulling the individual now this way and now that. In Nigeria, two contemporaries of Casely ...
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... produced the world's foremost luminaries; fathers of the Church whose scholarly works still excite the imagination. They were Africans just like us—~Saint Augustine, the greatest scholar of his century, the famous Tertullian, Saint ...
... produced the world's foremost luminaries; fathers of the Church whose scholarly works still excite the imagination. They were Africans just like us—~Saint Augustine, the greatest scholar of his century, the famous Tertullian, Saint ...
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... produced, more intensive research into the local newspapers and journals of the period is no doubt overdue. In the present sorry state of our knowledge, generalizations are most hazardous. Nevertheless, there is some evidence to show ...
... produced, more intensive research into the local newspapers and journals of the period is no doubt overdue. In the present sorry state of our knowledge, generalizations are most hazardous. Nevertheless, there is some evidence to show ...
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... produced the first masterpieces of Yoruba prose fiction before 1950. The fact remains that the specificity of Ghanaian literature, and to a lesser extent of all of West African literature in English, owes much to the Gold Coast period ...
... produced the first masterpieces of Yoruba prose fiction before 1950. The fact remains that the specificity of Ghanaian literature, and to a lesser extent of all of West African literature in English, owes much to the Gold Coast period ...
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