indigenization of language in the West African europhone novel /
First Statement of Responsibility
Chantal Zabus.
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
2nd enl. ed.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York, NY :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Rodopi,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2007.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xix, 261 pages).
SERIES
Series Title
Cross/cultures,
Volume Designation
4
ISSN of Series
0924-1426 ;
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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(M)other tongue and the third code -- Indigenization in the text -- Indigenization in the context -- Glottopolitics and diglossia in West Africa -- The first glottophagi -- Official languages and lingua francas -- Media of instruction and curricular subjects -- Media of literary expression -- Decolonization at the crossroads -- Pidginization and multilingual strategies -- Joyce Cary : "crocodile writing" and pidginization -- Beyond the levity of pidgin : Ekwensi's Jagua nana -- Pidgin in stasis : the Nigerian illiterati -- Acts of identity and code-switching : "over the ragged fence" -- (M)other tongue code-switching : scriptural aporia -- Extinct and surviving species : Pitineg and Ẹnpi -- The West African palimpset : case-studies in relexification -- The ancestor of relexification : Calquing in Amos Tutuola's The palm-wine drinkard -- Bound to textual violence : Gabriel Okara and Ahmadou Kourouma -- The logos-eaters : the Igbo ethno-text -- The ethno-text fragmented : Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments -- The visible trance and beyond -- Two ways of shadowing : cushioning and contextualization -- Naming the gap in the anglophone novel -- Naming the gap in the francophone novel -- Ken Saro-Wiwa's Sozaboy : pidgin in vitro -- Towards othering the foreign language.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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. Hailed as a classic in the 1990s, The African Palimpsest is here reprinted in a completely revised edition, with a new Introduction, updated data and bibliography, and with due consideration of more recent theoretical approaches.?A very valuable book? a detailed exploration in its concern with language change as demonstrated in post-colonial African literatures? Bill Ashcroft, University of New South Wales?Apart from its great documentary value, The African Palimpsest provides many theoretical concepts that will be useful to scholars of African literatures, linguists in general? as well as comparatists who want to gain fresh insights into the processes by which Vulgar Latin once gave birth to the Romance languages.? Ahmed Sheikh Bangura, University of California, Santa Barbara?As Zabus? book suggests, it is the area where the various languages of a community meet and cross-over? that is likely to provide the most productive site for the generation of a new literature that is true to the real linguistic situation that pertains in so much of contemporary urban Africa.? Stewart Brown, University of Birmingham.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
African palimpsest.
International Standard Book Number
9042022248
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Sociolinguistics-- Africa, West.
West African fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
West African literature-- History and criticism.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Linguistics-- Sociolinguistics.