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Indigenization of language in the African francophone novel : a new literary canon
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- Creator
- Peter W. Vakunta
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Peter Lang, [2011]
- ©2011
- Physical Details
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- xii, 166 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781433112713, 143311271X
- OCLC
- ocn681503973
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [149]-162) and index.
- Translation in African literature -- Theorizing literary postcoloniality -- Literary postcolonialism -- Translation and postcolonial theory -- African literature and the question of orality -- The socio-cultural context of contemporary fictional writing in Africa -- Theoretical foundations of orality and literacy -- Interface between orality and literacy in African literature -- Indigenization as a literary canon in the novels of Nazi Boni, Ahmadou Kourouma and Patrice Nganang -- The technique of "bwamufication" in Boni's Crépuscle des temps anciens -- Reflexification of French words -- Proverbs, ideophones, and other rhetorical devices -- Oralization of written discourse -- The "malinkelization" of French discourse in Les soleils des indépendances -- Intralingual translation in Les soleils des indépendances -- Proverbs, idiomatic expressions, and other linguistic innovations -- Translating orality into the written word -- Code-switching as a narrative technique in Nganang's Temps de chien -- Camfranglais -- Pidgin English -- Indigenous languages