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THE AFRICAN PALIMPSEST
INDIGENIZATION OF LANGUAGE IN THE WEST AFRICAN EUROPHONE NOVEL. SECOND ENLARGED EDITION |
| By: |
Chantal Zabus |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£40.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
9042022248 |
| ISBN 13: |
9789042022249 |
| Publisher: |
BRILL |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 2007 |
| Edition: |
2nd New edition |
| Series: |
Cross/Cultures 4 |
| Pages: |
261 |
| Description: |
Uniting a sense of the political dimensions of language appropriation with a serious, yet accessible linguistic terminology, this work examines the strategies of 'indigenization' whereby West African writers have made their literary English or French distinctively 'African'. It also examines West African writers such as Achebe, Armah, and Ekwensi. |
| Synopsis: |
Uniting a sense of the political dimensions of language appropriation with a serious, yet accessible linguistic terminology, The African Palimpsest examines the strategies of `indigenization' whereby West African writers have made their literary English or French distinctively `African'. Through the apt metaphor of the palimpsest - a surface that has been written on, written over, partially erased and written over again - the book examines such well-known West African writers as Achebe, Armah, Ekwensi, Kourouma, Okara, Saro-Wiwa, Soyinka and Tutuola as well as lesser-known writers from francophone and anglophone Africa. Providing a great variety of case-studies in Nigerian Pidgin, Akan, Igbo, Maninka, Yoruba, Wolof and other African languages, the book also clarifies the vital interface between Europhone African writing and the new outlets for African artistic expression in (auto-)translation, broadcast television, radio and film. |
| Publication: |
Netherlands |
| Imprint: |
Editions Rodopi B.V. |
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Non-returnable |
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