Title European-language writing in sub-Saharan Africa / edited by Albert S. Gérard

Published Amsterdam ;; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1986

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Description 1 online resource (2 volumes in 1 (1289 pages).) Series A comparative history of literatures in European languages Histoire comparée des littératures de langues européennes ;; v. 6 Comparative history of literatures in European languages ;; v. 6. Contents EUROPEAN-LANGUAGE WRITING IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;; Editorial page;; Title page;; Copyright page;; Volume 1;; French title;; Title page;; Table of contents;; INTRODUCTION;; PART ONE. UNDER WESTERN EYES;; CHAPTER 1. EARLY CONTACTS;; 1. THE PORTUGUESE IN AFRICA;; 2. MODERN AFRICAN WRITING IN LATIN;; 3. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY WRITING IN ENGLISH;; CHAPTER II. WEST AFRICA;; 1. THE PRIMACY OF DIDACTIC WRITING IN ENGLISH AND IN FRENCH;; 2. CREATIVE WRITING IN ENGLISH: EMERGENCE AND STAGNATION;; LIBERIA;; GHANA AND NIGERIA;; 3. CREATIVE WRITING IN FRENCH: EMERGENCE AND DIFFUSION;; WEST AFRICAN PROSE FICTION WILLIAM-PONTY DRAMAMADAGASCAR;; CAMEROON;; THE BELGIAN TERRITORIES;; CHAPTER III. SOUTHERN AFRICA;; 1. SOUTH AFRICAN LITERATURES TO WORLD WAR II;; 2. WHITE SOUTH AFRICAN LITERATURE AFTER WORLD WAR II;; AFRIKAANS;; ENGLISH;; 3. THE EMERGENCE OF ENGLISH WRITING IN ZIMBABWE;; CHAPTER IV. PORTUGUESE AFRICA TO THE 1950s;; 1. THE WEST AFRICAN AREA: CAPE VERDE, GUINEA-BISSAU, SÃO TOMÉ E PRÍNCIPE;; 2. ANGOLA;; 3. MOZAMBIQUE;; CHAPTER V. HISPANIC AFRICA;; PART TWO. BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS;; CHAPTER VI. NEGRITUDE;; 1. THE WESTERN MOOD;; 2. BLACK MIGRANTS IN PARIS;; 3. THE NEGRITUDE DEBATE CHAPTER VII. PROTEST WRITING OUTSIDE FRENCH AFRICA1. PORTUGUESE AFRICA: THE NEW MILITANCY;; 2. SOUTH AFRICA: BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS;; PART THREE. BLACK POWER;; CHAPTER VIII. FRENCH;; 1. THE FIRST POST-WAR GENERATION;; L. S. SENGHOR AND LYRICAL POETRY;; FROM FOLKTALE TO SHORT STORY;; THE GROWTH OF THE NOVEL;; 2. THE SECOND POST-WAR GENERATION;; LYRICAL POETRY;; THE GOLDEN YEARS OF THE NOVEL;; 3. THE EMERGENCE OF LOCAL PUBLISHING;; CONGO/ZAÏRE;; CAMEROON;; THE ";"NOWELLES EDITIONS AFRICAINES";";;; 4. THE SEVENTIES;; POETRY;; DRAMA;; THE NOVEL;; Volume 2;; French title;; Title page;; Table of contents CHAPTER IX. ENGLISH: NIGERIA1. AMOS TUTUOLA: LITERARY SYNCRETISM AND THE YORUBA FOLK TRADITION;; 2. POPULAR URBAN FICTION AND CYPRIAN EKWENSI;; 3. THE IBADAN CLUSTER;; THE HORN;; BLACK ORPHEUS;; MBARI;; 4. CHINUA ACHEBE AND THE GROWTH OF THE NOVEL;; THE OLDER GENERATION: T. M. ALUKO AND GABRIEL OKARA;; CHINUA ACHEBE;; THE IGBO NOVELISTS;; 5. WOLE SOYINKA AND THE GROWTH OF DRAMA;; 6. CHRISTOPHER OKIGBO AND THE GROWTH OF POETRY;; 7. AFTER THE CIVIL WAR;; THE NOVEL;; DRAMA;; THE ALTERNATIVE TRADITION: AN INSIDER'S POSTSCRIPT;; 8. APPENDIX: EMERGENT ENGLISH WRITING IN CAMEROON CHAPTER X. ENGLISH: THE OTHER WEST AFRICAN COUNTRIES1. GHANA;; DRAMA;; POETRY;; THE NOVEL;; 2. SIERRA LEONE AND THE GAMBIA;; CHAPTER XI. ENGLISH: EASTERN AFRICA;; 1. THE EARLY PHASE;; 2. KENYA;; 3. UGANDA;; 4. TANZANIA;; 5. MALAWI;; 6. ZAMBIA;; 7. ETHIOPIA;; 8. SOMALIA;; PART IV. COMPARATIVE VISTAS;; INTRODUCTION;; CHAPTER XII. THE THREE LITERARY TRADITIONS;; 1. WRITTEN ART AND ORAL TRADITION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA;; 2. THE TRIPLE HERITAGE IN EAST AFRICAN LITERATURE;; CHAPTER XIII. FRENCH-ENGLISH: CONTRASTS AND SIMILARITIES;; 1. FROM NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS TO CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS: A BILINGUAL APPROACH Summary 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 e Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Subject African literature -- History and criticism African literature (English) -- History and criticism African literature (French) -- History and criticism African literature (Portuguese) -- History and criticism BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. African literature African literature (English) African literature (French) African literature (Portuguese) Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Gérard, Albert S. LC no. 87120471 ISBN 9789027274687 9027274681 9630538326 9789630538329 1283424207 9781283424202 9786613424204 661342420X

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