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The African Palimpsest Indigenization of Language in the West African Europhone Novel 2nd Edition by Chantal Zabus ISBN 9042022248 9789042022249

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Author(s): Chantal Zabus
ISBN(s): 9789042022249, 9042022248
Edition: 2 Enlarged
File Details: PDF, 1.75 MB
Year: 2007
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 9042022248 

ISBN 13: 9789042022249

Author:  Chantal Zabus 

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.

Table of contents:

1. (M)Other Tongue and the Third Code
2. Glottopolitics and Diglossia in West Africa
3. Pidginization and Multilingual Strategies
4. The West African Palimpsest: Case-Studies in Relexification
5. The Visible Trace and Beyond
6. Towards Othering the Foreign Language

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