Dynamism In African Languages And Literature

Author : Keiko Takemura,B. Nyamnjoh
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,6 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 : Joyce T. Mathangwane,Akin Odebunmi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443888516

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Essays on Language, Communication and Literature in Africa by Joyce T. Mathangwane,Akin Odebunmi Pdf

Essays on Language, Communication and Literature in Africa explores language choice questions, together with domain-driven lingua-communicative and literary resources situated within the discourses of law, culture, medicine, visual art, politics, the media, music and literature in Africa. It identifies the distinctive African paraphernalia of these discourses, and foregrounds their real-world and mediated cultural and societal values, and highlights the Western presence through the inclusion of aspects of Shakespearean perspectives which bear universal tidings and speak to the African gender tradition. The chapters’ attention to verbal and visual artistic communicative mechanisms underlines such engagements as multilingualism policies, socio-political declension, social dynamism and cultural interventions that characterise the African setting. These realities are discussed in impressive detail, authoritative scholastic depth and effective stylistic tones that reflect the authors’ familiarity with the facets of African societies deducible from language, communication and literature.

Author : African Literature Association. Meeting
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : African literature
ISBN : 1592211577

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North-south Linkages and Connections in Continental and Diaspora African Literatures by African Literature Association. Meeting Pdf

This volume collects some of the best lectures at the African Literature Association's 25th annual conference held in 1999. The conference brought together for the first time a large number of scholars, creative writers and artists from Northern Africa and their counterparts from Sub- Saharan Africa. The conference and this collection highlight the inspiring and stimulating dialogue between two literary and cultural areas that have often been artificially compartmentalised. The essays draw suprising connections and illustrate the breadth and dynamism of African literature.

Author : Esther Mukewa Lisanza,Leonard Muaka
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : B. W. Andrzejewski,S. Pilaszewicz,W. Tyloch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 50,9 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 : Eunice Ngongkum,Hans Fonka
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781957296258

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Language, Literature, and the Dynamics of Conflict by Eunice Ngongkum,Hans Fonka Pdf

Informed by a global space animated by various conflicts, this book brings a refreshing perspective on how the disciplines of literature and language engage this phenomenon. In its shift from a purely political interrogation of conflict, the volume provides a broad analytic canvas on which human behaviour in such contexts can be examined. This is an ultimate invitation to a re-visioning of socio-cultural parameters of identity construction, borders, natural resources, religion, cultural values, beliefs, governance, ideology, and globalisation. The book’s varied perspective, animated by a rich diversity of literary and linguistic approaches, gives it an interdisciplinary emphasis that will appeal to readers across disciplines. Its ultimate message is that conflict is not subject-bound. The liberal analysis of different aspects makes the volume an invaluable asset not only to literature and language scholars but also to everyone with inclinations towards conflict creation and management.

Author : Sandra Dixon,Janice Spleth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : African literature
ISBN : 1569024812

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Cultural Dynamics of Globalization and African Literature by Sandra Dixon,Janice Spleth Pdf

"The papers for this volume were all delivered at the 33rd Annual Conference of the African Literature Association held in Morgantown, West Virginia."

Author : John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji,Kenneth W. Harrow,Eunice E. Omonzejie
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443893558

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The Humanities and the Dynamics of African Culture in the 21st Century by John Ayotunde Isola Bewaji,Kenneth W. Harrow,Eunice E. Omonzejie Pdf

That Africa is at a crossroads in an increasingly globalised world is indisputable. Equally unassailable is the fact that the humanities, as a broad field of intellection, research and learning in Africa, appears to have been pigeonholed in debates of relevance in the development aspirations of many African nations. Historical experiences and contemporary research outputs indicate, however, that the humanities, in its various shades, is critical to Africa’s capacity to respond effectively to such problems as security, corruption, political ineptitude, poverty, superstition, and HIV/AIDS, among many other mounting challenges which confront the people of Africa. The vibrancy and resilience of Africa’s cultures, against these and other odds of globalisation episodes in the course of our history, demand the focused attention of academia to exploit their relevance to contemporary issues. This collection provides a comprehensive overview of issues in the humanities at the turn of the 21st century, which create a veritable platform for the global redefinition and understanding of Africa’s rich cultures and traditions. Such areas covered include ruminations in metaphysics and psychology, pathos and ethos, cinematic and literary connections, and historical conceptualisations.

Author : Ce, Chin,Smith, Charles
Publisher : Handel Books
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789783708549

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Gender Issues in African Literature by Ce, Chin,Smith, Charles Pdf

Gender Issues in African Literature examines the ways in which some protagonists of African fictions are made to counter and challenge intertwined Western discourses on gender, employment, sexuality, and health. Here the conflict between Tradition and Modernity is argues from the favourite premise of male supremacist ideology showing how women have 'unlearned' these false concepts to build a sustained feminist movement and (re)learn the value of sisterhood. There is a bold attempt to reread Achebe as a consistent in urging women to fight the seemingly oppressive structures that have traditionally discriminated against them, and to disregard their diversity and embrace their unity. A chapter of Feminist Re-writing disagrees with the attempt to equate theory with political activism and presents Feminist literature as more than a verbal assertion that points to Feminist aesthetics and politics. The use of the trauma theory and testimony literature to explore traumatisation of female characters and its impact for Zimbabwean civil society is a useful addition to these gender studies in African literature.

Author : Albert S. Gérard
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : Three Continents
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UVA:X000358186

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African Language Literatures by Albert S. Gérard Pdf

Author : Miriam R. Eisenstein
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781489909008

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The Dynamic Interlanguage by Miriam R. Eisenstein Pdf

Recent work in applied linguistics has expanded our understanding of the rule governed nature of language. The concept of an idealized speaker -hearer whose linguistic competence is abstract and separate from reality has been enriched by the notion of an actual interlocutor who possesses communicative compe tence, a knowledge of language which accounts for its use in real-world con texts. Areas of variation previously relegated to idiosyncratic differences in performance have been found to be dynamic yet consistent and lend themselves to study and systematic description. Because language acquisition involves the development of communicative competence, by its very nature it incorporates variation and systematicity. Sec ond-language acquisition is similarly variable, since interlanguage is subject to the same universal and language-specific conventions. In addition, aspects of the second language have been found to be unevenly acquired and are differ entially reflected in particular contexts or settings. Yet, despite our expanding knowledge, this variability is only beginning to be treated in much of the sec ond-language acquisition literature. This volume presents the work of some researchers and methodologists who have taken on the challenge of including variation in their research designs and pedagogical recommendations. Variation is shown to be relevant to lin guistic, social, and psychological aspects of language. It is apparent in the registers and dialects of the target language and in the inter language of learners.

Author : Kathleen M. Balutansky,Marie-Agnes Sourieau
Publisher : Florida and the Caribbean Open
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1947372009

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Caribbean Creolization by Kathleen M. Balutansky,Marie-Agnes Sourieau Pdf

The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida?s long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands. Books in this series show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the Caribbean. They tell the tales of early pioneers, both foreign and domestic. They examine topics critical to the area such as travel, migration, economic opportunity, and tourism. They look at the growth of Florida and the Caribbean and the attendant pressures on the environment, culture, urban development, and the movement of peoples, both forced and voluntary. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series gathers the rich data available in these architectural, archaeological, cultural, and historical works, as well as the travelogues and naturalists? sketches of the area in prior to the twentieth century, making it accessible for scholars and the general public alike. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series is made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, under the Humanities Open Books program.

Author : African Literature Association. Meeting
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Africa
ISBN : 0865439966

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Tongue and Mother Tongue by African Literature Association. Meeting Pdf

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 : Tanure Ojaide
Publisher : Springer
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137560032

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Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature by Tanure Ojaide Pdf

Literature remains one of the few disciplines that reflect the experiences, sensibility, worldview, and living realities of its people. Contemporary African literature captures the African experience in history and politics in a multiplicity of ways. Politics itself has come to intersect and impact on most, if not all, aspects of the African reality. This relationship of literature with African people’s lives and condition forms the setting of this study. Tanure Ojaide’s Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature: Personally Speaking belongs with a well-established tradition of personal reflections on literature by African creative writer-critics. Ojaide’s contribution brings to the table the perspective of what is now recognized as a “second generation” writer, a poet, and a concerned citizen of Nigeria’s Niger Delta area.

Author : Ernest N. Emenyonu,Nduka Otiono,Chiji Akoma
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-19
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781847013460

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Alt 41 by Ernest N. Emenyonu,Nduka Otiono,Chiji Akoma Pdf

Interrogates and explores African literature in African languages today, and the continuing interfaces between works in indigenous languages and those written in European languages or languages of colonizers. Sixty years after the Conference of African Writers of English Expression at Makerere University, the dominance in the global canon of African literatures written in European languages over those in indigenous languages continues to be an issue. This volume of ALT re-examines this central question of African literatures to ask, 'What is the state of African literatures in African languages today?' Contributors discuss the translation of Gurnah's novel Paradise to Swahili, and Osemwegie's Ọrọ Epic to English, and Wolof wrestlers' panegyrics. They analyse Edo eco-critical poetry, and the poetics of Igbo mask poetry, and morality in early prose fiction in indigenous Nigerian languages. Other essays contribute a semiotic analysis of Duruaku's A Matter of Identity, and the decolonization of trauma in Uwem Akpan's Say You're One of Them. Overall, the volume paints a complex image of African cultural production in indigenous languages, especially in the ways Africa's oral performance traditions remain resilient in the face of a seemingly undiminished presence of non-African language literary traditions.