In:European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa
Edited by Albert S. Gérard
[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages VI] 1986
► pp. 7–10
This article is available free of charge.
Published online: 1 January 1986
https://doi.org/10.1075/chlel.vi.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/chlel.vi.toc
Table of contents
Prelim pages
Table of contents
Introduction
Part one: Under Western eyes
Chapter l: Early contacts
1. The Portuguese in Africa
2. Modern African writing in Latin
3. Eighteenth-century writing in English
Chapter ll: West Afirca
1. The primacy of didactic writing in English and in French
2. Creative writing in English: Emergence and stagnation98
Liberia
Ghana and Nigeria
3. Creative writing in French: Emergence and diffusion
West African prose fiction
William-Ponty drama
Madagascar
Cameroon
The Belgian territories
Chapter lll: Southern Africa
1. South African literatures to world war ll
2. White South African literature after world war ll
Afrikaans
English
3. The emergency of English writing in Zimbabwe
Chapter IV: Portuguese Africa to the 1950s
1. The West African area: Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Sao Tome e Principe
2. Angola
3. Mozambique
Chapter V: Hispanic Africa
Part two: Black consciousness
Introduction to Part two
Chapter VI: Negritude
1. The Western mood
2. Black migrants in Paris
The Negritude debate
Chapter VII: Protest writing outside French Afrika
1. Portuguese Africa: The new militancy
2. South Africa: Black consciousness
Part three: Black power
Introduction to Part three
Chapter VIII: French
1. The first post-war generation462
L.S. senghor and lyrical poetry
From folktale to short story
The growth of the novel
2. The second post-war generation501
Lyrical poetry
The golden years of the novel
3. The emergence of local publishing
Congo/Zaire
Cameroon
The Nouvelles editions Africanes
4. The seventies581
Poetry
The novel
Chapter IX: English: Nigeria
1. Amos Tutoula: Literary syncretism and the yoruba folk tradition
2. Popular urban fiction and Cyprian ekwensi
3. The ibadan cluster659
-The horn
Black Orpheus
Mbari
4. Chinua achebe and the growth of the novel689
Chapter X: English: The Other West African Countries
Chapter XI: English: Eastern Africa
Part IV: Comparative Vistas
Introduction to Part IV
Chapter XII: The Three Literary Traditions
Chapter XIII: French-English: Contrasts and Similarities
Chapter XIV: French-English-Portuguese: the Trilingual Approach
Chapter XV: Shapes of French Writing: Black Africa, North Africa and the West Indies
Chapter XVI: Africa and the Western Hemisphere
Chapter XVII: Africa and Ancient Greece: Euripides, Soyinka and Their Bacchants
Chapter XVIII: African Literature and Socialist Scholarship
Bibliography
Birth and Early Growth of a New Branch of Learning
A non-conclusion
The Tasks Ahead
List of Contributors
Index
