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 a social class which was to have great impact upon the Gold Coast during the first half of the century; and in the semi-literate Mrs. Brofusem, whose exertions aim at aping British manners which she is unable to master, it is ...
... represents a social class which was to have great impact upon the Gold Coast during the first half of the century; and in the semi-literate Mrs. Brofusem, whose exertions aim at aping British manners which she is unable to master, it is ...
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... represented a marriage of similar minds which sparked off Rabéarivelo's realization of what he really wanted to do in his poetry. The foreign influence was not, however, the only one. For at about the same time, Rabéarivelo came to ...
... represented a marriage of similar minds which sparked off Rabéarivelo's realization of what he really wanted to do in his poetry. The foreign influence was not, however, the only one. For at about the same time, Rabéarivelo came to ...
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... represented in Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and Congo-Brazzaville. German traders were active along the coast from the 1860s. Gustave Nachtigal entered into treaties with local chieftains in the 1880s. By 1895, the whole of Cameroon had ...
... represented in Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and Congo-Brazzaville. German traders were active along the coast from the 1860s. Gustave Nachtigal entered into treaties with local chieftains in the 1880s. By 1895, the whole of Cameroon had ...
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... represented a setback for the country's literary prospects. French educational authorities desisted from the German initiative of sending students to Europe for higher education, and French Catholic missionaries showed little ...
... represented a setback for the country's literary prospects. French educational authorities desisted from the German initiative of sending students to Europe for higher education, and French Catholic missionaries showed little ...
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