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Author : Véronique Wakerley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122974525
Author : Olusola Oke,Sam Ade Ojo
Publisher : Spectrum Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015059973316
The first title of a new African literature series, this is a lively, accomplished collection of essays about modern African literature in French. It aims to address the need - of both the anglophone African and the non-African reader - for literary criticism of francophone literature in English, and thus bridge a prevailing, prohibitive lanaguage and cultural barrier. The collection covers a comprehensive range of genres - from the epic traditon and oral literature, to poetry and the modern novel. Its contributors are all specialists in French literature and African literature in French, and include for example the prominent Nigerian critic of feminist literature and feminism, Adule Adebayo. Subjects include: negritude poetry as a process of protest, revolt and reconciliation; the biographies and autobiographical novels of women writers and their comparative late arrival on the literary scene; and perspectives on the debate surrounding the tradition and status of the African novel.
Author : Dorothy S. Blair
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1976-11-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521211956
This 1976 book provides both a historical survey and a critical analysis of the literature in French from West and Equatorial Africa. Professor Blair begins by discussing the social, educational and political influences which led to the formation of the Negritude movement and to a flowering of French-African creative writing. This historical approach is then complemented by a study of the different literary genres. She traces the evolution of the first manifestations of literary activity in French by African writers, the written folk-tale, fable and short story, from the oral tradition of the indigenous culture, and the eventual appearance of the novel with a legendary or historical theme. The origins of French-African drama are considered for the first time, and the work of the minor poets analysed. Finally, Professor Blair attempts a definition of the French-African novel, and studies examples from three major periods from the 1930s onwards.
Author : Sam Ade Ojo,Olusola Oke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111348228
The second volume in this African Literature series arises from the need of Nigerian universities for literary criticism of African literature in French, for an English speaking audience. Additionally, the work aims to offer a comparative perspective on francophone literature, and thus diversify away from the formal linguistic and textual analysis typical of traditional French/francophone criticism, towards a broader approach and examination of literature rooted in a social and political context. The work is broadly divided into three sections: poetry, novels and theatre. Examples of the discussions include: negritude and the African world-view of Senghor's poetry; Sembene Ousmane's indictment of political, religious and moral chaos in Africa; the characterisation of women on the francophone stage; and an overview of African radio-drama.
Author : Richard J. Gray II
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786475582
Scholars examining literature from former French colonies sometimes view it wrongly as simply an outgrowth of colonial literature. By suggesting new ways to understand the multiple voices present, this book explores how Francophone African poetry and theatre in particular, since the 1960s, constitute both an organic cultural product and a reflection of the diverse African cultures in which they originate. Themes explored in five chapters include the many kinds of African identity formation, the resistance to former notions of literary composition as art, a remapping of social responsibility, and the impact of globalization on Francophone Africa's participation in world economics, politics and culture. This study highlights the inner workings of Francophone African literature and suggests a canonization of modern Francophone works from a world perspective.
Author : Kwaku Addae Gyasi
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 082047830X
Focusing on the African writer and the language of the former colonial power, The Francophone African Text: Translation and the Postcolonial Experience highlights the writer's re-appropriation of the foreign language in the creative writing process. It calls attention to the African writer's use of French, a process of creative translation in which the writer's words form a hybrid code that compels the original French to refer to the indigenous African language for meaning. Examining a group of works under the theme of translation, this book reveals that a consideration of both ideological and linguistic elements enhances understanding of the subject from the broader perspective of postcolonial discourse.
Author : Nicki Hitchcott,Laa Ibnlfassi
Publisher : Berg Publishers
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1996-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1859730140
African Francophone Writing presents a comprehensive overview of African writing in the Francophone literary world. It explores the work of important classic and contemporary African writers from the 1950s to the present who, until recently, have received little critical attention. The contributors view their subjects from a diverse range of critical perspectives -- historical, thematic, psychoanalytic, feminist and post-colonial -- to provide a variety of theoretically sophisticated analyses of Francophone writing. A comprehensive introduction and an extensive chronological table are included. African Francophone literature is rapidly becoming a major discipline in universities in Britain and North America. This book will provide much needed critical material for students at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. [Well-known authors studied in this book include: Chraïbi, Memmi and Boudjedra in the Maghreb; Sembène, Kourouma and Adiaffi in sub-Saharan Africa; Begag and Cherif from the 'Beur' community; and women writers such as Debèche, Fall and Bâ.]
Author : Ruth Bush
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781381953
An exploration of African literary production in France and its socio-economic implications.
Author : Pierre Alexandre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015008367883
Author : Aedín Ní Loingsigh
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781846310492
Over the past two decades interest in travel has developed significantly. Critical engagement with imperialism, postcolonialism, diasporas, ethnography and cultural anthropology has led to increasingly sophisticated readings of the travel writing genre and a growing acknowledgement of itscomplex history. Postcolonial Eyes is the first study of its kind to identify a specifically Sub-Saharan African lineage within the broader tradition of travel writing. As well as exploring the reasons for Africans' exclusion from the genre, the book examines the important relationship betweenethnicity and travel and identifies the concerns and preoccupations that define African writers' approaches to travel.
Author : Ndumbe Eyoh,Albert Azeyeh
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789956791484
This landmark volume brings together a very rich harvest of forty critical essays on Cameroon literature by Cameroon literary scholars. The book is the result of the Second Conference on Cameroon Literature which took place at the University of Buea in 1994. The Buea conference was motivated by a determination to look at Cameroon literature straight into its face and criticize it using literary criteria of the strictest kind. Gone were the times when the criticism was complacent because it was believed that a nascent literature could easily be stifled by application of rather strict cannons of literary criticism. Both writers and critics had a lot to say. Subjects dealt with ranged from general topics on literature, survival and national identity, through specialized articles on prose, poetry, drama, translation, language, folklore, childrens literature, Journalism and politics. It is the hope of the volume editors that the publication of these papers will instigate the kind of actions that were recommended and that the prolific nature of Cameroon literature will equally give rise to a prolific and robust criticism.
Author : Clara Tsabedze
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015034262496
In this book, the author explores the relationship between colonial experience and ideological perspective. Ngugi, an anglophone, views neo-colonial exploitation mainly in terms of the political domination of African nations by the West through its economy. On the other hand, Sembene, a francophone, sees the foreign control of the African economy as detrimental to African cultural values. However, due to the Marxist orientation of the two authors, both consider the African elite to be the perpetrators of the exploitative system imposed by former colonial powers. They believe that only a revolution spearheaded by the masses can free Africa from neo-colonial exploitation.
Author : G. D. Killam
Publisher : London : Heinemann
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015046360791
The essays, articles and interviews in this book offer a selection of views on African writing by African writers, such as Chinua Achebe, J.P. Clark, Gabriel Okara, Lewis Nkosi, James Ngugi, Okello Oculi, Ali A. Mazrui, Sembène Ousmane, Nadine Gordimer and Joe Kariuki. They form landmarks on the road towards the establishment of a cxritical assessment of modern African writing. The essays reveal three concers. Firstly a concern with the social and political function of literature. Then there is the debate on relationship between African literature and the traditions of English and French literature. Finally the writers are anxious to establish the uniquely African quality of African literature and the African society that literature reflects.
Author : Michelle Beauclair
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015056848719
The Francophone World: Cultural Issues and Perspectives introduces readers to French-speaking communities across the globe and offers a perspective on the cultures that have developed in the wake of French exploration and colonization. This book explores the French influence in West Africa, the diversity of cultures within the Caribbean, the Francophone communities of North America, and the plight of North African immigrants living in France. Through these interdisciplinary essays and the discussion questions that follow them, readers can examine such wide-ranging topics as the media in Francophone West Africa, the special status of women writers in Senegal, and the mix of cultures in Martinique and French Guiana. This book also highlights the transition into modernity in Burkina Faso, the theater of Aimé Césaire, literature and culture in Québec, and the French presence in the northeastern United States.
Author : Charles Forsdick,Feroza Basu,Siobhán Shilton
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 082047133X
From the postcolonial perspective of the early twenty-first century, the importance of travel literature, for considerations of national and international cultures and identities, has become increasingly apparent. Travel literature in French has, however, received little critical scrutiny. This book contributes to contemporary reassessments of the form in a number of disciplines, focusing specifically on the discourses and contexts of travel in twentieth-century texts written in French. Its scope is interdisciplinary, involving theoretical and generic considerations as well as a historical overview of colonial and postcolonial texts. The book provides essential reading for all students of travel literature in French - and of travel literature in general.
