Black African Literature in English: 1991–2001: Critical Appreciation and Reception, by Femi Abodunrin

2008 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-153
Author(s):  
Wumi Raji
2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-77
Author(s):  
Cristina Lombardi-Diop

Abstract The essay concentrates on two seminal postcolonial novels by authors of African descent: Cristina Ubax Ali Farah’s Madre piccola (2007) (Little Mother: A Novel) and Gabriella Ghermandi’s Regina di fiori e di perle (2007) (Queen of Flowers and Pearls). It argues that these works give expression to an African diasporic urban generation that is changing the literary legacy of the Horn of Africa. The co-presence of multiple genres, with orality appearing as a strong influence on their written narrative forms, places these novels within the larger formation of a black African literary tradition. By looking at these two novels from an Africanist perspective, the essay takes into consideration their plurilingual interventions, the use of glossaries and linguistic borrowings, alongside the presence of Somali and Amharic cultural references. It highlights the authorial perspective as a ‘filial descent’ that addresses the complexity of a postcolonial generational shift in contemporary African literature. By placing these works within an African literary tradition and showing their critical de-centring of this tradition, the essay reconfigures a possible space of cultural autonomy for African postcolonial writing, away from the Italocentric space of discourse that has so far dominated its critical reception in Italy.


1981 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 106
Author(s):  
Susan Adams Brietzke ◽  
Bernth Lindfors

Africa Today ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-145
Author(s):  
Mark L. Lilleleht

FRANCISOLA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dame KANE

RÉSUMÉ. Depuis les années trente, plusieurs œuvres de la littérature négro-africaine vont se se détacher progressivement de l’éloge de la métropole  et matérialiser une forme de résistance assimilable au chauvinisme qui apparait, non seulement, tel un désir de reconnaissance et d’affirmation identitaire mais également, au-delà, comme un bouclier permettant de s’opposer ou d’atténuer l’influence des ondes  culturelles venant d’ailleurs. La Femme parfum du romancier et philosophe sénégalais Abdoulaye Kane (2009), fait partie de ces textes qui, avec finesse et profondeur, expriment cet état de fait en s’intéressant aux qualités intrinsèques de communautés négro-africaines, souvent minoritaires,  en exposant leurs valeurs puisées de la tradition dont elles continuent, non sans difficultés, à pérenniser les fondements et les contours dans un contexte particulier où la mondialisation tend vers une uniformisation culturelle au détriment de la diversité des modes de vie. Il s’agit, ici, en s’inspirant de l’approche sociocritique de Lucien Goldman dans Dieu caché (1956), d’analyser les indices d’un certain chauvinisme ou la manière dont la résistance culturelle s’organise dans ce roman. Ce qui nous permettra de cerner ses modalités, son mécanisme et sa portée. Mots-clés : chauvinisme, conservatisme, culture, négro-africaine, parfum, résistance, Sinthiou  ABSTRACT. Since the 1930s, several works of Negro-African literature have gradually become detached from the praise of the metropolis and materialize a form of resistance comparable to chauvinism that appears not only as a desire for recognition and affirmation of identity but also Beyond, as a shield to oppose or mitigate the influence of cultural waves from elsewhere. The Femme parfum of the Senegalese novelist and philosopher Abdoulaye Kane (2009), is one of those texts which, with finesse and depth, express this state of affairs by focusing on the intrinsic qualities of Black-African communities, often minority, by exposing their These values are derived from the tradition of which they continue, not without difficulties, to perpetuate the foundations and outlines in a particular context where globalization tends towards a cultural standardization to the detriment of the diversity of lifestyles. It is here, inspired by the sociocritical approach of Lucien Goldman in Dieu caché (1956), to analyze the signs of a certain chauvinism or the way in which cultural resistance is organized in this novel. This will allow us to define its modalities, mechanism and scope. Keywords: chauvinism,conservatism, culture, flavour, négro-african, résistance, Sinthiou


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