European-language writing in sub-Saharan Africa / edited by Albert S. Gérard.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

EUROPEAN-LANGUAGE WRITING IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Volume 1; French title; Title page; Table of contents; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE. UNDER WESTERN EYES; CHAPTER 1. EARLY CONTACTS; 1. THE PORTUGUESE IN AFRICA; 2. MODERN AFRICAN WRITING IN LATIN; 3. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY WRITING IN ENGLISH; CHAPTER II. WEST AFRICA; 1. THE PRIMACY OF DIDACTIC WRITING IN ENGLISH AND IN FRENCH; 2. CREATIVE WRITING IN ENGLISH: EMERGENCE AND STAGNATION; LIBERIA; GHANA AND NIGERIA; 3. CREATIVE WRITING IN FRENCH: EMERGENCE AND DIFFUSION; WEST AFRICAN PROSE FICTION

WILLIAM-PONTY DRAMAMADAGASCAR; CAMEROON; THE BELGIAN TERRITORIES; CHAPTER III. SOUTHERN AFRICA; 1. SOUTH AFRICAN LITERATURES TO WORLD WAR II; 2. WHITE SOUTH AFRICAN LITERATURE AFTER WORLD WAR II; AFRIKAANS; ENGLISH; 3. THE EMERGENCE OF ENGLISH WRITING IN ZIMBABWE; CHAPTER IV. PORTUGUESE AFRICA TO THE 1950s; 1. THE WEST AFRICAN AREA: CAPE VERDE, GUINEA-BISSAU, SÃO TOMÉ E PRÍNCIPE; 2. ANGOLA; 3. MOZAMBIQUE; CHAPTER V. HISPANIC AFRICA; PART TWO. BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS; CHAPTER VI. NEGRITUDE; 1. THE WESTERN MOOD; 2. BLACK MIGRANTS IN PARIS; 3. THE NEGRITUDE DEBATE

CHAPTER VII. PROTEST WRITING OUTSIDE FRENCH AFRICA1. PORTUGUESE AFRICA: THE NEW MILITANCY; 2. SOUTH AFRICA: BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS; PART THREE. BLACK POWER; CHAPTER VIII. FRENCH; 1. THE FIRST POST-WAR GENERATION; L. S. SENGHOR AND LYRICAL POETRY; FROM FOLKTALE TO SHORT STORY; THE GROWTH OF THE NOVEL; 2. THE SECOND POST-WAR GENERATION; LYRICAL POETRY; THE GOLDEN YEARS OF THE NOVEL; 3. THE EMERGENCE OF LOCAL PUBLISHING; CONGO/ZAÏRE; CAMEROON; THE ""NOWELLES EDITIONS AFRICAINES""; 4. THE SEVENTIES; POETRY; DRAMA; THE NOVEL; Volume 2; French title; Title page; Table of contents

CHAPTER IX. ENGLISH: NIGERIA1. AMOS TUTUOLA: LITERARY SYNCRETISM AND THE YORUBA FOLK TRADITION; 2. POPULAR URBAN FICTION AND CYPRIAN EKWENSI; 3. THE IBADAN CLUSTER; THE HORN; BLACK ORPHEUS; MBARI; 4. CHINUA ACHEBE AND THE GROWTH OF THE NOVEL; THE OLDER GENERATION: T. M. ALUKO AND GABRIEL OKARA; CHINUA ACHEBE; THE IGBO NOVELISTS; 5. WOLE SOYINKA AND THE GROWTH OF DRAMA; 6. CHRISTOPHER OKIGBO AND THE GROWTH OF POETRY; 7. AFTER THE CIVIL WAR; THE NOVEL; DRAMA; THE ALTERNATIVE TRADITION: AN INSIDER'S POSTSCRIPT; 8. APPENDIX: EMERGENT ENGLISH WRITING IN CAMEROON

CHAPTER X. ENGLISH: THE OTHER WEST AFRICAN COUNTRIES1. GHANA; DRAMA; POETRY; THE NOVEL; 2. SIERRA LEONE AND THE GAMBIA; CHAPTER XI. ENGLISH: EASTERN AFRICA; 1. THE EARLY PHASE; 2. KENYA; 3. UGANDA; 4. TANZANIA; 5. MALAWI; 6. ZAMBIA; 7. ETHIOPIA; 8. SOMALIA; PART IV. COMPARATIVE VISTAS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER XII. THE THREE LITERARY TRADITIONS; 1. WRITTEN ART AND ORAL TRADITION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA; 2. THE TRIPLE HERITAGE IN EAST AFRICAN LITERATURE; CHAPTER XIII. FRENCH-ENGLISH: CONTRASTS AND SIMILARITIES; 1. FROM NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS TO CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS: A BILINGUAL APPROACH

The first major comparative study of African writing in western languages, European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa, edited by Albert S. Gérard, falls into four wide-ranging sections: an overview of early contacts and colonial developments "Under Western Eyes"; chapters on "Black Consciousness" manifest in the debates over Panafricanism and Negritude; a group of essays on mental decolonization expressed in "Black Power" texts at the time of independence struggles; and finally "Comparative Vistas," sketching directions that future comparative study might explore. An introductory e.

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