Introduction To Francophone African Literature

Author : Olusola Oke,Sam Ade Ojo
Publisher : Spectrum Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015059973316

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Introduction to Francophone African Literature by Olusola Oke,Sam Ade Ojo Pdf

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 : Laïla Ibnlfassi,Nicki Hitchcott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1996-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015037470799

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African Francophone Writing by Laïla Ibnlfassi,Nicki Hitchcott Pdf

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 : Richard J. Gray II
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786475582

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Francophone African Poetry and Drama by Richard J. Gray II Pdf

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 : Kathryn Batchelor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317641148

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Decolonizing Translation by Kathryn Batchelor Pdf

The linguistically innovative aspect of Francophone African literature has been recognized and studied from a variety of angles over recent decades, yet little attention has been paid to what happens to such literature when it is translated into another language. Taking as its corpus all sub-Saharan Francophone African texts that have ever been published in English, this book explores the ways in which translators approach innovative features such as African-language borrowings, neologisms and other deliberate manipulations of French, depictions of sociolinguistic variation, and a variety of types of wordplay. The implications of their translation decisions are drawn out with reference to the broader significances that are often accorded to postcolonial literature, and earlier critics' calls for a decolonized translation practice are explored from both a practical and theoretical angle. These findings are used to push towards a detailed investigation of the postcolonial turn in translation studies, drawing on the work of key postcolonial theorists such has Homi K. Bhabha and Gayatri Spivak. This is a timely and incisive critical assessment of contemporary discourses on the ethics and politics of translation.

Author : Sam Ade Ojo,Olusola Oke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111348228

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Themes in African Literature in French by Sam Ade Ojo,Olusola Oke Pdf

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 : John Conteh-Morgan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1994-10-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 052143453X

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Theatre and Drama in Francophone Africa by John Conteh-Morgan Pdf

This is the first study to be entirely devoted to African literary drama in French, a major component of African theater. Beginning with a detailed analysis of its relationship to a variety of precolonial, but sometimes still contemporary, traditions of performance that constitute part of its roots, the author examines this drama in both its literary and theatrical dimensions. He discusses its development, themes and techniques up to and including contemporary theater. The book is divided into two sections: Part One offers a theoretical and historical background; Part Two analyzes key individual plays central to the repertoire, including two from the Caribbean. All quotations are translated into English.

Author : Patrick Corcoran
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521849713

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The Cambridge Introduction to Francophone Literature by Patrick Corcoran Pdf

The literature of French-speaking countries forms a distinct body of work quite separate from literature written in France itself, offering a passionate creative engagement with their postcolonial cultures. This book provides an introduction to the literatures that have emerged in the French-speaking countries and regions of the world in recent decades, illustrating their astonishing breadth and diversity, and exploring their constant state of tension with the literature of France. The study opens with a wide-ranging discussion of the idea of francophonie. Each chapter then provides readers with historical background to a particular region and identifies the key issues that have influenced the emergence of a literature in French, before going on to examine in detail a selection of the major writers. These case studies tackle many of the key authors of the francophone world, as well as authors writing today.

Author : Odile Cazenave,Patricia Célérier
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813931159

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Contemporary Francophone African Writers and the Burden of Commitment by Odile Cazenave,Patricia Célérier Pdf

By looking at engagée literature from the recent past, when the francophone African writer was implicitly seen as imparted with a mission, to the present, when such authors usually aspire to be acknowledged primarily for their work as writers, Contemporary Francophone African Writers and the Burden of Commitment addresses the currrent processes of canonization in contemporary francophone African literature. Odile Cazenave and Patricia Célérier argue that aesthetic as well as political issues are now at the forefront of debates about the African literary canon, as writers and critics increasingly acknowledge the ideology of form. Working across genres but focusing on the novel, the authors take up the question of renewed forms of commitment in this literature. Their selected writers range from Mongo Beti, Ousmane Sembène, and Aminata Sow Fall to Boubacar Boris Diop, Véronique Tadjo, Alain Mabanckou, and Léonora Miano, among others.

Author : Dominic Thomas
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 025310954X

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Nation-Building, Propaganda, and Literature in Francophone Africa by Dominic Thomas Pdf

What characterizes the relationship between literature and the state? Should literature serve the needs of the state by constructing national consciousness, espousing state propaganda, and molding good citizens? Or should it be dedicated to a different kind of creative social endeavor? In this important book about literature and the politics of nation-building, Dominic Thomas assesses the contributions of Francophone African writers whose works have played a key role in the recent transition to democracy in the Congo. Exploring the works of Sony Labou Tansi, Henri Lopes, and Emmanuel Dongala, among others, Thomas highlights writers intimately involved with government and politics -- whether in support of the state's vision or with the intention of articulating a more open view of citizens and society. Focusing on themes such as collaboration, reconciliation, identity, history, and memory, Nation-Building, Propaganda, and Literature in Francophone Africa elaborates a broader understanding of the circumstances of African colonization, modern African nation-state formation, and the complex cultural dynamics at work in Africa since independence.

Author : Christopher L. Miller
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1990-12-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 0226528014

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Theories of Africans by Christopher L. Miller Pdf

"Situating literature and anthropology in mutual interrogation, Miller's...book actually performs what so many of us only call for. Nowhere have all the crucial issues been brought together with the sort of critical sophistication it displays."—Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ". . . a superb cross-disciplinary analysis."—Y. Mudimbe

Author : Belinda E Jack
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1996-02-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015037449561

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Negritude and Literary Criticism by Belinda E Jack Pdf

The first thorough study to consider the history of the criticism of "Negro-African" literature in French, exploring the complex relationship between how literatures are named and how they are evaluated.

Author : Dorothy S. Blair
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1976-11-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521211956

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African Literature in French by Dorothy S. Blair Pdf

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 : Kwaku Addae Gyasi
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 082047830X

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The Francophone African Text by Kwaku Addae Gyasi Pdf

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 : Jonathan P. Smithe
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1590332903

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African Literature by Jonathan P. Smithe Pdf

African literature, like the continent itself is enormous and diverse. East Africa's literature is different from West Africa's which is quite different from South Africa's which has different influences on it than North Africa's. Africa's literature is based on a widespread heritage of oral literature, some of which has now been recorded. Arabic influence can be detected as well as European, especially French and English. Legends, myths, proverbs, riddles and folktales form the mother load of the oral literature. This book presents an overview of African literature as well as a comprehensive bibliography, primarily of English language sources. Accessed by subject, author and title indexes.

Author : Jonathan Ngate
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : African fiction (French)
ISBN : 0865430888

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Francophone African Fiction by Jonathan Ngate Pdf