The African Palimpsest : Indigenization of Language in the West African Europhone Novel.

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Uniting a sense of the political dimensions of language appropriation with a serious, yet accessible linguistic terminology, The African Palimpsest examines the strategies of 'indigenization' whereby West African writers have made their literary English or French distinctively 'Africa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zabus, Chantal J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2007.
Colección:Cross/Cultures - Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English, 4.
Temas:
1900-1999
Sociolinguistics > Africa, West.
West African fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
West African literature > History and criticism.
Sociolinguistique > Afrique occidentale.
Roman ouest-africain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature ouest-africaine > Histoire et critique.
Sociolinguistics
West African fiction
West African literature
West Africa
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The African Palimpsest; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. (M)Other Tongue and the Third Code; 2. Glottopolitics and Diglossia in West Africa; 3. Pidginization and Multilingual Strategies; 4. The West African Palimpsest: Case-Studies in Relexification; 5. The Visible Trace and Beyond; 6. Towards Othering the Foreign Language; Works Cited; Appendix: Tables and Figures; Index.

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