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The Anglophone literary-linguistic continuum : English and Indigenous languages in African literary discourse /

Interrogates Obi Wali's (1963) prophecy that continued use of former colonial languages in the production of African literature could only lead to 'sterility', as African literatures can only be written in indigenous African languages. In doing so, Andindilile critically examines sele...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Andindilile, Michael (Author)
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Grahamstown, South Africa : NISC (Pty) Ltd, on behalf of the African Humanities Program, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
Series:African humanities series.
Subjects:
Language and culture > Africa.
Discourse analysis, Literary > Africa.
African literature > History and criticism.
African literature (English) > History and criticism.
Africa > Languages > Political aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • The case for an Anglophone African literary-linguistic continuum
  • Achebe and Anglophone African literary discourse
  • Ngũgĩ, nativism, English and translingualism
  • Gordimer, English, race and cross-cultural translation
  • Farah, English and cosmopolitanism
  • Anglophonism, the novel and the African literary-linguistic continuum.