What Literature Knows

ebook Forays into Literary Knowledge Production · Contributions to English and American Literary Studies (Ceals)

By Michael indilile

cover image of What Literature Knows

Sign up to save your library

With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. Find out more about OverDrive accounts.

   Not today

Find this title in Libby, the library reading app by OverDrive.

Download Libby on the App Store Download Libby on Google Play

Search for a digital library with this title

Title found at these libraries:

Library Name Distance
Loading...
Michael Andindilile in The Anglophone LiteraryñLinguistic Continuum: English and Indigenous Languages in African Literary Discourse interrogates Obi Waliís (1963) prophecy that continued use of former colonial languages in the production of African literature could only lead to ësterilityí, as African literatures can only be written in indigenous African languages. In doing so, Andindilile critically examines selected of novels of Achebe of Nigeria, Ngugi of Kenya, Gordimer of South Africa and Farah of Somalia and shows that, when we pay close attention to what these authors represent about their African societies, and the way they integrate African languages, values, beliefs and cultures, we can discover what constitutes the Anglophone African literaryñlinguistic continuum. This continuum can be defined as variations in the literary usage of English in African literary discourse, with the language serving as the base to which writers add variations inspired by indigenous languages, beliefs, cultures and, sometimes, nation-specific experiences.
What Literature Knows