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Author : Albert S. Gérard
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037406753
Author : B. W. Andrzejewski,S. Pilaszewicz,W. Tyloch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1985-11-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521256469
Although African literatures in English and French are widely known outside Africa, those in the African languages themselves have not received comparable attention. In this book a number have been selected for survey by fourteen specialist writers, providing the reader with an introduction to this very wide field and a body of reference material which includes extensive bibliographies and biographical information on African authors. Theoretical issues such as genre divisions are discussed in the essays and the historical, social and political forces at work in the creation and reception of African literature are examined. Literature is treated as an art whose medium is language, so that both the oral and written forms are encompassed. This book will be of value not only to readers concerned with the cultures of Africa but to all those with an interest in the literary phenomena of the world in general.
Author : Esther Mukewa Lisanza,Leonard Muaka
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783030234799
This edited book examines the crucial role still played by African languages in pedagogy and literatures in the 21st century, generating insights into how they effectively serve cultural needs across the African continent and beyond. Boldly positioning African languages as key resources in the 21st century, chapters focus on themes such as language revolt by marginalized groups at grassroots level, the experience of American students learning African languages, female empowerment through the use of African languages in music, film and literary works, and immigration issues. The contributions are written by scholars of language, literature, education and linguistics, and the book will be of interest to students and scholars in these and related areas.
Author : V. Klima,K.F. Ruzicka,P. Zima
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401017619
In October 1972, our Czech-written book Literatury eerne Afriky (Literatures of Black Mrica) was published in Prague, presenting a survey of an extensive field. The publication, which was signed at that time by all three authors, differed from most contemporary introductions to the study of Mrican literatures in a threefold way: a) The authors attempted to cover various literacy and literary efforts in the area roughly delimited by Senegal in the west, Kenya in the east, Lake Chad in the north and the Cape in the south. We were well aware-even at that time-that neither technically nor linguistically would it be possible to cover all literary efforts within that area. We did try, however, to include in our survey both the literacies and literatures written in the Indo-European linguae francae (English, French, Portuguese) and in at least several of the major African languages of the area. We did not attempt an exhaustive description, but wished, rather, to show the mutual relationships which emerge, if the literatures of thii\ area, written either in the major linguae francae or in the African languages, are studied not as isolated phenomena, but as mutually complementary features. b) As two of us were linguists and one was a literary historian, we did not limit our analysis of the developing literacies and literatures to the purely cultural and literary aspects. Our intention waR to deal-whcre and if it was relevant-not only with the process of African literary development, but also with the simultaneous, complementar.
Author : Alain Ricard
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UVA:X004809125
In this work, African literatures are presented in a new perspective focusing on the dialogue between languages and literatures. An historical overview provides new insights into the literatures of Africa, both oral and written.
Author : Bernd Heine,Derek Nurse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000-08-03
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521666295
This book is an introduction to African languages and linguistics, covering typology, structure and sociolinguistics. The twelve chapters are written by a team of fifteen eminent Africanists, and their topics include the four major language groupings (Niger-Congo, Nilo-Saharan, Afroasiatic and Khoisan), the core areas of modern theoretical linguistics (phonology, morphology, syntax), typology, sociolinguistics, comparative linguistics, and language, history and society. Basic concepts and terminology are explained for undergraduates and non-specialist readers, but each chapter also provides an overview of the state of the art in its field, and as such will be referred to also by more advanced students and general linguists. The book brings this range of material together in accessible form for anyone wishing to learn more about this challenging and fascinating field.
Author : African Literature Association. Meeting
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Africa
ISBN : 0865439966
Tongue and Mother Tongue takes on two compelling challenges: the language question and the place and role of the mother tongue in African literature. This collection is the culmination of the fierce, decades-old debate on the question of African literature and its criticism. The fourteen essays range from a variety of critical and theoretical perspectives, covering the theoretical and ideological aspects of the language question, the nature of criticism, the influence of the oral tradition, critical analysis of mother tongue literature and textual analyses.
Author : Eldred D. Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015024797766
Author : Leonard Muaka,Esther Mukewa Lisanza
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498572286
Language in Contemporary African Cultures and Societies examines language in contemporary Africa by positioning language at the center of interrelationships between individuals, society, and culture. Because of how language permeates every aspect of human existence within each society, this book has assembled contributions by researchers and scholars who focus on different topics within African languages and cultures. By presenting African languages as resources and subject and subject of the study, this book discusses Africa’s multilingualism, language policy, preservation, and their uses in development, security, liberation, and identity formation in the diaspora. Based on empirical research and analysis of texts, this book takes a closer look at the continent and the diaspora by situating African languages, cultures, and literatures at the center, and shows how African languages are used in the liberation, transfer of knowledge, and promotion of literacy among Africans globally. It is a book that seeks to bridge the gap between the continent and the diaspora. All contributors are experienced scholars of language, literature, education and linguistics. The chapters provide a major means for examining the interplay of language, literature, and education.
Author : Edmund L. Epstein,Robert Kole
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : African literature
ISBN : 0865435359
In this unprecedented anthology, some of the most prolific and widely read African novelists are analysed.
Author : Dainess Maganda
Publisher : Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781909112933
We live in a world that sees and also contesting ideas of Eurocentrism in the interpretation of various issues, including African literatures and cultures. This book seeks to engage readers into a critical examination of the meaning, history, ambiguity, status and perceptions surrounding African languages and literature. It presents current shifts in form and practice surrounding regional, national, and "e;postcolonial"e; models towards "e;world literature"e; by focusing on African literature as a focal point for understanding perceptions of the world towards African languages and literature. The book shows the importance of wrestling with issues of global aftermaths of slavery, audience, readership, diasporic and transnational connections, as well as digital and social media without undermining the conflicts that literature presents in and on its own merit.
Author : D. B. Z. Ntuli,C. F. Swanepoel
Publisher : Acacia Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UVA:X002573490
Author : A. S. GERARD
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 091447765X
Author : Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472053681
Engaging questions of language, identity, and reception to restore South African and diaspora writing to the African literary tradition
Author : Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345802545
A Washington Post Notable Book When a young man is gunned down in the streets of Nairobi, his grief-stricken father and sister bring his body back to their crumbling home in the Kenyan drylands. But the murder has stirred up memories long since buried, precipitating a series of events no one could have foreseen. As the truth unfolds, we come to learn the secrets held by this parched landscape, hidden deep within the shared past of a family and their conflicted nation. Spanning Kenya’s turbulent 1950s and 1960s, Dust is spellbinding debut from a breathtaking new voice in literature.