Download or read book Le mythe de Chaka dans la litt rature n gro africaine written by Huenumadji Afan and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book L vangile Chaka written by Huenumadji Afan and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personnage mythique de fameuse mémoire, Chaka (1787-1828) s'est bel et bien emparé des esprits. Après avoir par la sagaie édifié dans la première moitié du dix-neuvième siècle un vaste empire en Afrique australe, le chef zoulou règne toujours par la plume des écrivains négro-africains. Comprendre que le discours forme et déforme tout ce qu'il touche, c'est saisir la substance du message du mythe de Chaka, de l'évangile de Chaka.
Download or read book Aspects Du Mythe Dans Chaka de Thomas Mofolo Senghor Et Seydou Badian written by Ludovic Mousso Yapo and published by Omniscriptum. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le mythe du personnage de Chaka déploie la valeur du mythe cosmogonique. Le mécanisme de fonctionnement de ce mythe dévoile le surgissement de plusieurs typologies de mythes, qui fonctionnent en structures combinatoires et permettent de découvrir les riches éléments culturels et ancestraux des Bantou. Au-delà de la typologie, le style événementiel du mythe fait apparaître son affinité avec les autres genres oraux: (conte, légende, poésie, chanson, épopée et proverbe). Le mythe de Chaka ne se résume pas seulement à la magie destructrice, broyeuse de vie humaine, ingénieusement montée par les sorciers, les forces occultes, les incantations, les dieux et les mânes des ancètres. Il se manifeste comme le fondement de la culture et de l'identité du Noir. C'est, également, l'expression de la vitalité, du dynamisme et de l'originalité de l'âme bantou en particulier et de l'âme noire en général. Cette oeuvre est écrite à l'intention des étudiants, des chercheurs, des enseignants et des adeptes de la littérature orale africaine. Elle est une contribution enrichissante à la compréhension de l'expressivité et du fonctionnement de la symbolique du mythe et notamment, le mythe de Chaka.
Download or read book LE MYTHE D INITIATION DANS LE ROMAN NEGRO AFRICAIN written by Bopoungo Mpfouma and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WE TREAT INITIATION MYTH IN SEVEN NEGRO-AFRICAN NOVELS WHICH FOLLOW : L'AVENTURE AMBIGUE (C.H.KANE), CHAKA (T.MOFOLO), L'ENFANT NOIR (C. LAYE), L'ETRANGE DESTIN DE WANGRIN (A.H.BA), L'INITIE (O.BHELY-QUENUM), LE MONDE S'EFFONDRE (C.ACEBE), AND L'IVROGNE DANS LA BROUSSE (A.TUTUOLA). OUR WORK IS A RESEARCH BASED ON NEGRO-AFRICAN IMAGINARY. IT IS DIVIDED INTO THREE PRINCIPAL AREAS : 1 TRADITIONAL COMMENTRY CRITICS FOR THE FACT THAT THEY NEGLATED MYTH STRUCTURES WHICH CONSTITUT THE ONLY TRUE UNDERSTANDING OF THE TEXTS LISTED ABOVE. 2 ESTABLISHMENT OF AN ORIGINAL LEXIC OF NEGRO-AFRICAN INITIATIONS. 3 ANALYSIS OF MYTHICAL STRUCTURES WHICH LEAD TO A "MYTHANALYSE", AND THE DEFINITION IN A SENS WHICH IS BOTH PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL.
Download or read book Chaka written by Thomas Mofolo and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaka is a genuine masterpiece that represents one of the earliest major contributions of black Africa to the corpus of modern world literature. Mofolos fictionalized life-story account of Chaka (Shaka), translated from Sesotho by D. P. Kunene, begins with the future Zulu kings birth followed by the unwarranted taunts and abuse he receives during childhood and adolescence. The author manipulates events leading to Chakas status of great Zulu warrior, conqueror, and king to emphasize classic tragedys psychological themes of ambition and power, cruelty, and ultimate ruin. Mofolos clever nods to the supernatural add symbolic value. Kunenes fine translation renders the dramatic and tragic tensions in Mofolos tale palpable as the richness of the authors own culture is revealed. A substantial introduction by the translator provides valuable context for modern readers.
Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore written by Akintunde Akinyemi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-05 with total page 1041 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook offers the most comprehensive, analytic, and multidisciplinary study of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and the African Diaspora to date. Preeminent scholars Akintunde Akinyemi and Toyin Falola assemble a team of leading and rising stars across African Studies research to retrieve and renew the scholarship of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and the Diaspora just as critical concerns about their survival are pushed to the forefront of the field. With five sections on the central themes within orality and folklore – including engagement ranging from popular culture to technology, methods to pedagogy – this handbook is an indispensable resource to scholars, students, and practitioners of oral traditions and folklore preservation alike. This definitive reference is the first to provide detailed, systematic discussion, and up-to-date analysis of African oral traditions and folklore.
Download or read book Introduction to African Culture written by Alfâ Ibrâhîm Sow and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introductionto African culture - its literatures, arts,and values.
Download or read book The Concept of Negritude in the Poetry of Leopold Sedar Senghor written by Sylvia Washington Ba and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Negritude has been defined by Léopold Sédar Senghor as "the sum of the cultural values of the black world as they are expressed in the life, the institutions, and the works of black men." Sylvia Washington Bâ analyzes Senghor's poetry to show how the concept of negritude infuses it at every level. A biographical sketch describes his childhood in Senegal, his distinguished academic career in France, and his election as President of Senegal. Themes of alienation and exile pervade Senghor's poetry, but it was by the opposition of his sensitivity and values to those of Europe that he was able to formulate his credo. Its key theme, and the supreme value of black African civilization, is the concept of life forces, which are not attributes or accidents of being, but the very essence of being. Life is an essentially dynamic mode of being for the black African, and it has been Senghor's achievement to communicate African intensity and vitality through his use of the nuances, subtleties, and sonorities of the French language. In the final chapter Sylvia Washington Bâ discusses the future of Senghor's belief that the black man's culture should be recognized as valid not simply as a matter of human justice, but because the values of negritude could be instrumental in the reintegration of positive values into western civilization and the reorientation of contemporary man toward life and love. Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book The Complete Poetry of Aim C saire written by Aimé Césaire and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Poetry of Aimé Césaire gathers all of Cesaire’s celebrated verse into one bilingual edition. The French portion is comprised of newly established first editions of Césaire’s poetic œuvre made available in French in 2014 under the title Poésie, Théâtre, Essais et Discours, edited by A. J. Arnold and an international team of specialists. To prepare the English translations, the translators started afresh from this French edition. Included here are translations of first editions of the poet’s early work, prior to political interventions in the texts after 1955, revealing a new understanding of Cesaire’s aesthetic and political trajectory. A truly comprehensive picture of Cesaire’s poetry and poetics is made possible thanks to a thorough set of notes covering variants, historical and cultural references, and recurring figures and structures, a scholarly introduction and a glossary. This book provides a new cornerstone for readers and scholars in 20th century poetry, African diasporic literature, and postcolonial studies.
Download or read book The Yearning for Relief written by Klaas van Walraven and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sawaba movement and its rebellion in Niger are a totally neglected subject. Klaas van Walraven traces this story from a social history perspective, placing an entire generation of activists, removed from the official record, back into mainstream Nigérien history. Representing a genuine social movement, Sawaba formed Niger’s first autonomous government under French suzerainty. Overthrown by the Gaullists and persecuted, it attempted a comeback with a guerrilla campaign (1960-1966), which ended in failure and led to the movement’s destruction. The Yearning for Relief – based on numerous interviews with survivors and a vast range of archival sources, including France’s secret service – is essential reading for the reappraisal of Niger’s history and the role of militant nationalist movements in the decolonisation of French West Africa.
Download or read book The Epic of Askia Mohammed written by Thomas Albert Hale and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1996-02-22 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Askia Mohammed is the most famous leader in the history of the Songhay Empire, which reached its apogee during his reign in 1493-1528. Songhay, approximately halfway between the present-day cities of Timbuktu in Mali and Niamey in Niger, became a political force beginning in 1463, under the leadership of Sonni Ali Ber. By the time of his death in 1492, the foundation had been laid for the development under Askia Mohammed of a complex system of administration, a well-equipped army and navy, and a network of large government-owned farms. The present rendition of the epic was narrated by the griot (or jeseré) Nouhou Malio over two evenings in Saga, a small town on the Niger River, two miles downstream from Niamey. The text is a word-for-word translation from Nouhou Malio's oral performance.
Download or read book The Polish Peasant in Europe and America written by William Isaac Thomas and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the immigrant family, this title brings together documents and commentary that is suitable for teaching United States history survey courses as well as immigration history and introductory sociology courses. It includes an introduction and epilogue.
Download or read book Rewriting Modernity written by David Attwell and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rewriting Modernity: Studies in Black South African Literary History connects the black literary archive in South Africa to international postcolonial studies via the theory of transculturation, a position adapted from the Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz.
Download or read book The Epic in Africa written by Isidore Okpewho and published by New York : Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Africa Since 1935 written by Unesco. International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hardcover edition of volume 8 was published in 1994. This paperback edition is the eighth and final volume to be published in the UNESCO General History of Africa. Volume 8 examines the period from 1935 to the present, and details the role of African states in the Second World War and the rise of postwar Africa. This is one of the most important books in the entire series, and as such, it is an unabridged paperback.
Download or read book Shilluk Grammar written by B. Kohnen and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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