ENGL 2927 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Black Comedy, Indirect Rule, Cultural Assimilation

• School: Carleton University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 2927
• Professor: Pius Adesanmi

Document Summary

Violence of imperialism (conquest, slavery, colonialism, neo-colonialism) Literature in its expanded meaning of the totality of the creative genres (art, music, film) Eferred to as (cid:862)the afri(cid:272)a(cid:374) i(cid:373)agi(cid:374)atio(cid:374)(cid:863) (cid:271)(cid:455) a(cid:271)iola irele. Associated with traditions/cultures/worldviews of precolonial or pre-contact africa. Associated with written literature of west african sahelian religion. Shaped lit written in english, french & portugese. Describes fiction & creative non-fiction written in the languages of european colonialism (eng + fr) **written creative literature developed in african languages (yoruba/twi) before & after independence emerged first half of the 20th century. Use of ter(cid:373) (cid:858)(cid:373)oder(cid:374)(cid:859) (cid:272)riti(cid:272)ized due to ideologi(cid:272)al e(cid:374)(cid:448)iro(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t that this literature (cid:449)as (cid:271)or(cid:374) English + french as languages of colonial humiliation & imperial dispossession. La(cid:374)guages i(cid:374) (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h europe i(cid:373)agi(cid:374)es, (cid:272)o(cid:374)stru(cid:272)ted & i(cid:374)s(cid:272)ri(cid:271)ed a(cid:374) (cid:862)afri(cid:272)a that (cid:374)e(cid:448)er (cid:449)as(cid:863) Issues that raise questions: (cid:858)moder(cid:374)(cid:859) afri(cid:272)a(cid:374) literature i(cid:373)plies that europea(cid:374) la(cid:374)guages > afri(cid:272)a(cid:374) la(cid:374)guages: oral tradition vs modern, european texts = modern (does this lend weight to eurocentrism?)