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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... represents one of the very few literary links between French and Belgian territories. In 1949, the Brussels Colonial Exhibition literary competition prize was awarded for the second and last time. It went to Escapade ruandaise (Brussels ...
... represents one of the very few literary links between French and Belgian territories. In 1949, the Brussels Colonial Exhibition literary competition prize was awarded for the second and last time. It went to Escapade ruandaise (Brussels ...
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... represented in The Penguin Book of South African Verse ed. Jack Cope and Uys Krige (Harrnondsworth: Penguin, 1968), a fairly general view of the field is available in Afrikaans Poetry with English Translations, ed. Grove and C.J.D. ...
... represented in The Penguin Book of South African Verse ed. Jack Cope and Uys Krige (Harrnondsworth: Penguin, 1968), a fairly general view of the field is available in Afrikaans Poetry with English Translations, ed. Grove and C.J.D. ...
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... represented and recorded the primarily oral slave responses to life at the Cape. This culture has persisted until the present time in the Cape, transformed as it was into songs of liberation and historical commentary by the eventual ...
... represented and recorded the primarily oral slave responses to life at the Cape. This culture has persisted until the present time in the Cape, transformed as it was into songs of liberation and historical commentary by the eventual ...
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... represented a breakdown of the pastoral economy, and the trek away from the British represented a bid for independence from colonial domination. By the end of the 1830s and 40s this migration had culminated in the establishment of the ...
... represented a breakdown of the pastoral economy, and the trek away from the British represented a bid for independence from colonial domination. By the end of the 1830s and 40s this migration had culminated in the establishment of the ...
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... represented an important group and an ideological strand in a movement to improve the material and economic lot of a people even at the expense of other groups, often seen in racialist terms. It is ironic, however, that none of these ...
... represented an important group and an ideological strand in a movement to improve the material and economic lot of a people even at the expense of other groups, often seen in racialist terms. It is ironic, however, that none of these ...
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