The Francophone African Text

Translation and the Postcolonial Experience

von Kwaku A. Gyasi

136 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Focusing on the African writer and the language of the former colonial power, The Francophone African Text: Translation and the Postcolonial Experience highlights the writer’s re-appropriation of the foreign language in the creative writing process. It calls attention to the African writer’s use of French, a process of creative translation in which the writer’s words form a hybrid code that compels the original French to refer to the indigenous African language for meaning. Examining a group of works under the theme of translation, this book reveals that a consideration of both ideological and linguistic elements enhances understanding of the subject from the broader perspective of postcolonial discourse.

• Reihe: Francophone Cultures and Literatures
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein 1900 bis 2000
• ISBN: 9780820478302
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 04.09.2006
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York