African Languages And Literatures In The 21st Century

Author : Esther Mukewa Lisanza,Leonard Muaka
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783030234799

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African Languages and Literatures in the 21st Century by Esther Mukewa Lisanza,Leonard Muaka Pdf

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 : Charles Cantalupo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1904855865

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Against All Odds by Charles Cantalupo Pdf

Against All Odds: African Languages and Literatures into the 21st Century

Author : Monwabisi K. Ralarala,Ken Barris,Eunice Ivala,Sibawu Siyepu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : African languages
ISBN : 1920294155

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African Languages and Language Practice Research in the 21st Century by Monwabisi K. Ralarala,Ken Barris,Eunice Ivala,Sibawu Siyepu Pdf

Author : Dainess Maganda
Publisher : Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781909112933

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THE LITERATURE OF LANGUAGE ANDTHE LANGUAGE OF LITERATUREIN AFRICA AND THE DIASPORAEdited byDainess by Dainess Maganda Pdf

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 : B. W. Andrzejewski,S. Pilaszewicz,W. Tyloch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1985-11-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521256469

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Literatures in African Languages by B. W. Andrzejewski,S. Pilaszewicz,W. Tyloch Pdf

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 : D. E. Mutasa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : African languages
ISBN : UCAL:B5133668

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African Languages in the 21st Century by D. E. Mutasa Pdf

Author : Alain Ricard
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UVA:X004809125

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The Languages and Literatures of Africa by Alain Ricard Pdf

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 : International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures. Congress
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789042016378

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Re-imagining Language and Literature for the 21st Century by International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures. Congress Pdf

In 28 essays selected from the proceedings of the XXII International Congress of FILLM held at Assumption University, Bangkok, scholars and teachers of languages and literatures have noted, bemoaned and analyzed the waning influence of the humanities to varying degrees. They have raised questions, offered solutions and vigorously defended their languages and literatures, often in no uncertain terms - not as a politically correct thing to do, but as a human obligation. The papers presented here are true to the spirit of the Congress from the moment of the keynote address to what followed in a spontaneous outbreak of voices from scholars of more than 70 universities throughout the world. For the first time, in an international congress, scholars have described with great sensitivity many languages and literatures often considered the periphery, in a sincere attempt to understand 'the other', thus making a passionate plea for inclusion in the umbrella of the world's languages and literatures. With contributions by keynote speaker and authority on Comparative Literature Gayatri Spivak, USA and plenary speakers Vridhagiri Ganeshan, India; Roger Sell, Finland; Antoine Compagnon, France; and Chetana Nagavajara, Thailand this volume is of immense interest to scholars and teachers of languages and literatures the world over.

Author : Albert S. Gérard
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : Three Continents
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UVA:X000358186

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African Language Literatures by Albert S. Gérard Pdf

Author : V. Klima,K.F. Ruzicka,P. Zima
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401017619

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Black Africa by V. Klima,K.F. Ruzicka,P. Zima Pdf

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 : Keiko Takemura,B. Nyamnjoh
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789956553518

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Dynamism in African Languages and Literature by Keiko Takemura,B. Nyamnjoh Pdf

The book provides novel perspectives towards conceptualisation of African Potentials. It explores diverse and dynamic aspects of linguistic communications in Africa, ranging from convivial multilingual practices to literal and musical arts. The book reflects the diversity and ever-changing dynamism in the African sociolinguistic sphere, that is, metalinguistic discourse in East Africa, sociolinguistic dynamism in Angola, conflict reconciliation speech performed in Ethiopia, and syncretic urban linguistic code called Sheng in Kenya. The volume also explores multi-dimensional relationships between literary arts and the society by investigating such topics as traditional Swahili poetry, publication of children books in Benin, and transformation and reconstruction of Yoruba popular music. The book elucidates dynamic process of creation through mixing of traditional and foreign elements of culture.

Author : Alamin M. Mazrui
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1853596892

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English in Africa by Alamin M. Mazrui Pdf

This text offers a critical examination of aspects of the politics of the role of English in Africa and its Diaspora. It looks at its changed location in the post-Cold War era and the challenges it poses to the enduring quest for intellectual liberation, pan-Africanism and Afrocentricity. The study also explores the spaces and possibilities for appropriating the language towards a counter-hegemonic African-centred agenda under the present global order.

Author : Samba Camara,Mohamed Mwamzandi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527559004

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African Languages, Literatures, and Postcolonial Modernity by Samba Camara,Mohamed Mwamzandi Pdf

This book offers a fresh look into the “languages of postcolonial modernity” in Africa and, to a lesser degree, its diaspora. It foregrounds the notion of postcolonial modernity in reference to modernization as experienced in the postcolony and its contemporary legacies, and investigates how African languages and literatures, both as means of communication and as instruments of cultural agency, have embodied and mediated modernity. Each chapter grapples with the literary or linguistic dimensions of postcolonial modernity as portrayed in African novels, film, poetry or popular music or as embodied in African and Afro-diasporic languages and dialects. The chapters also reveal how literature and language, respectively, document and embody discourses, phenomena, histories, ideologies, and beliefs that resulted from the legacies of colonialism.

Author : Humphrey Tonkin,Timothy G. Reagan
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1588113841

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Language in the 21st Century by Humphrey Tonkin,Timothy G. Reagan Pdf

What is the future of languages in an increasingly globalized world? Are we moving toward the use of a single language for global communication, or are there ways of managing language diversity at the international level? Can we, or should we, maintain a balance between the global need to communicate and the maintenance of local and regional identities and cultures? What is the role of education, of language rights, of language equality in this volatile global linguistic mix? A group of leading scholars in sociolinguistics and language policy examines trends in language use across the world to find answers to these questions and to make predictions about likely outcomes. Highlighted in the discussion are, among other issues, the rapidly changing role of English, the equally rapid decline and death of small languages, the future of the major European languages, the international use of constructed languages like Esperanto, and, not least, the question of what role applied scholarship can and should play in mapping and influencing the future.

Author : Olakunle George
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119058175

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A Companion to African Literatures by Olakunle George Pdf

Rediscover the diversity of modern African literatures with this authoritative resource edited by a leader in the field How have African literatures unfolded in their rich diversity in our modern era of decolonization, nationalisms, and extensive transnational movement of peoples? How have African writers engaged urgent questions regarding race, nation, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality? And how do African literary genres interrelate with traditional oral forms or audio-visual and digital media? A Companion to African Literatures addresses these issues and many more. Consisting of essays by distinguished scholars and emerging leaders in the field, this book offers rigorous, deeply engaging discussions of African literatures on the continent and in diaspora. It covers the four main geographical regions (East and Central Africa, North Africa, Southern Africa, and West Africa), presenting ample material to learn from and think with. A Companion To African Literatures is divided into five parts. The first four cover different regions of the continent, while the fifth part considers conceptual issues and newer directions of inquiry. Chapters focus on literatures in European languages officially used in Africa -- English, French, and Portuguese -- as well as homegrown African languages: Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Swahili, and Yoruba. With its lineup of lucid and authoritative analyses, readers will find in A Companion to African Literatures a distinctive, rewarding academic resource. Perfect for undergraduate and graduate students in literary studies programs with an African focus, A Companion to African Literatures will also earn a place in the libraries of teachers, researchers, and professors who wish to strengthen their background in the study of African literatures.