Indigenization of language in the African francophone …

Innehållsförteckning

Translation in African literature -- Theorizing literary postcoloniality -- Literary postcolonialism -- Translation and postcolonial theory -- African literature and the question of orality -- The socio-cultural context of contemporary fictional writing in Africa -- Theoretical foundations of orality and literacy -- Interface between orality and literacy in African literature -- Indigenization as a literary canon in the novels of Nazi Boni, Ahmadou Kourouma and Patrice Nganang -- The technique of "bwamufication" in Boni's Crépuscle des temps anciens -- Reflexification of French words -- Proverbs, ideophones, and other rhetorical devices -- Oralization of written discourse -- The "malinkelization" of French discourse in Les soleils des indépendances -- Intralingual translation in Les soleils des indépendances -- Proverbs, idiomatic expressions, and other linguistic innovations -- Translating orality into the written word -- Code-switching as a narrative technique in Nganang's Temps de chien -- Camfranglais -- Pidgin English -- Indigenous languages.

Detaljer

Medverkan och funktion

Peter W. Vakunta (Författare)

klassifikation

843.00996 (DDK-klassifikation)

Identifikator

ISBN 9781433112713 · inb., ISBN 143311271X · inb.

har titel

Indigenization of language in the African francophone novel : a new literary canon

upphovsuppgift

Peter W. Vakunta

utgivning

New York : Peter Lang, 2011

omfång

xii, 166 p.

Mått

24 cm.

klassifikation

PQ3984 (LC-klassifikation)

Seriemedlemskap

Francophone cultures and literatures · ISSN 1077-0186 · Francophone cultures and literatures ; 59

kontrollnummer

12192194

Biblioteksspecifik information (bestånd)

Nordiska Afrikainstitutets bibliotek · Biblioteket (Afr)

ämne
Nazi Boni, Ahmadou Kourouma, Patrice Nganang, French speaking Africa, Francophonie, Literature, Languages, Translation, Authors, Post-colonialism, Criticism

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