The African Palimpsest: Indigenization of Language in the West African Europhone Novel - Couverture souple

Zabus, Chantal

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9042022248 ISBN 13 : 9789042022249

Editeur : Editions Rodopi B.V., 2007

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

CHANTAL ZABUS is Professor of British and Postcolonial Literatures at the University Paris 13. She is the author of Tempests after Shakespeare (2002) and Between Rites and Rights: Excision in Women’s Texts and Human Contexts (2007). She has edited Le Secret: Motif et moteur de la littérature (with Jacques Derrida, 1999); Changements au féminin en Afrique noire (2000), and Fearful Symmetries: Essays and Testimonies Around Excision and Circumcision (2008).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Editions Rodopi B.V.
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9042022248
• ISBN 13: 9789042022249
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 281
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible