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Alt 41: African Literature in African Languages

Alt 41: African Literature in African Languages

Emenyonu, Ernest N.
Otiono, Nduka
Akọma, Chiji

Hardcover

Series: African Literature Today (Hardcover), Book 41

Literary CriticismFiction AnthologiesOther African Languages

ISBN10: 1847013465
ISBN13: 9781847013460
Publisher: James Currey
Published: Dec 19 2023
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Interrogates and explores African literature in African languages today, and the continuing interfaces between works in indigenous languages and those written in European languages or languages of colonizers.

Sixty years after the Conference of African Writers of English Expression at Makerere University, the dominance in the global canon of African literatures written in European languages over those in indigenous languages continues to be an issue. This volume of ALT re-examines this central question of African literatures to ask, 'What is the state of African literatures in African languages today?' Contributors discuss the translation of Gurnah's novel Paradise to Swahili, and Osemwegie's Ọrọ Epic to English, and Wolof wrestlers' panegyrics. They analyse Edo eco-critical poetry, and the poetics of Igbo mask poetry, and morality in early prose fiction in indigenous Nigerian languages. Other essays contribute a semiotic analysis of Duruaku's A Matter of Identity, and the decolonization of trauma in Uwem Akpan's Say You're One of Them. Overall, the volume paints a complex image of African cultural production in indigenous languages, especially in the ways Africa's oral performance traditions remain resilient in the face of a seemingly undiminished presence of non-African language literary traditions.

Funded by the Knowledge Unlatched Select 2024 collection, this title is available as an Open Access ebook under the Creative Commons License: CC BY-NC-ND.

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