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LEADER: 02172cam a2200301 a 4500
001 2010045421
003 DLC
005 20110722083156.0
008 101115s2011 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2010045421
020 $a9781433112713 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a143311271X (hardcover : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn681503973
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043 $af------
050 00 $aPQ3984$b.V35 2011
082 00 $a843.009/96$222
100 1 $aVakunta, Peter W.
245 10 $aIndigenization of language in the African francophone novel :$ba new literary canon /$cPeter W. Vakunta.
260 $aNew York :$bPeter Lang,$cc2011.
300 $axii, 166 p. ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aFrancophone cultures and literatures,$x1077-0186 ;$vv. 59
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [149]-162) and index.
505 0 $aTranslation 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.
650 0 $aAfrican fiction (French)$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aLanguage and culture$zAfrica, French-speaking.
650 0 $aPostcolonialism.
830 0 $aFrancophone cultures and literatures ;$vv. 59.