The African palimpsest [[electronic resource] ] : indigenization of language in the West African europhone novel / / Chantal Zabus
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| Autore: |
Zabus Chantal J
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| Titolo: |
The African palimpsest [[electronic resource] ] : indigenization of language in the West African europhone novel / / Chantal Zabus
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| Pubblicazione: | Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2007 |
| Edizione: | 2nd enl. ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (282 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.440966 |
| Soggetto topico: | Sociolinguistics - Africa, West |
| West African fiction - 20th century - History and criticism | |
| West African literature - History and criticism | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-232) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Preliminary Material -- (M)Other Tongue and the Third Code -- Glottopolitics and Diglossia in West Africa -- Pidginization and Multilingual Strategies -- The West African Palimpsest: Case-Studies in Relexification -- The Visible Trace and Beyond -- Towards Othering the Foreign Language -- Works Cited -- Tables and Figures -- Index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The African palimpsest |
| ISBN: | 1-282-26533-4 |
| 9786612265334 | |
| 94-012-0455-1 | |
| 1-4356-1181-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910452095603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Cross/cultures ; ; 4.