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100 1 $aJulien, Eileen,$d1949-
245 10 $aAfrican novels and the question of orality /$cEileen Julien.
260 $aBloomington :$bIndiana University Press,$c©1992.
300 $a180 pages ;$c25 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 168-173) and index.
530 $aAlso issued online.
505 0 $aThe search for continuity and authenticity -- An impoverished paradigm -- The importance of genre -- A dubious heroism: epic modalities in L'Etrange Destin de Wangrin -- The democratization of epic: Les Bouts de bois de Dieu -- Authority reconstructed: Le Regard du roi -- An ambiguous quest: La Carte d'identite -- "The Emperor's New Clothes": The lens of fable in La Vie et demie -- "The Mouth That Did Not Eat itself": From object of representation to medium in Devil on the Cross -- Toward new readings of the novel.
520 $aEileen Julien sees the search for oral origins in African literature as a quest for African authenticity. She critiques and revises the conceptual category of orality as it has been understood and used by scholars, stressing the transformation of narrative genres as an index of socio-political relations and authorial vision. Julien examines the premise that the connection between oral tradition and the novel is a sign of continuity and authenticity; she demonstrates that.
520 $aThe premise is, in part, a response to the dominance of Eurocentric criticism. Critics in the West and in Africa have come to accept an essentialist view that writing is European and orality, African. Thus studies of the relationship between oral and written texts are often tautological (the novel is European, "orality" makes it authentically African). Or they lead to problematic or simplistic conclusions: the "incorporation" of oral materials sometimes enhances the.
520 $aNovel, sometimes menaces it. African Novels and the Question of Orality argues that the adaptation of oral narrative genres is not a necessary feature of the novel but is, rather, an arbitrary one that expresses an imaginative solution to aesthetic and ideological problems: manipulation of genre reflects an author's narrative goals and social and ideological visions. Julien's argument emphasizes the writer's intent and allows for more complex interpretations of his or.
520 $aHer work. In part II of her study, Julien selects three generic tendencies (epic, initiation story, and fable) to use as the basis for detailed study of six novels. She reads each novel not as a "natural" derivation of an oral tradition but as a meaningful reappropriation of an oral narrative genre. That is to say, these genres may have origins in oral traditions, but they are adapted and transformed differentially--in specific, intricate, and significant ways. The.
520 $aNovels of epic tendency, Hampate Ba's L'Etrange Destin de Wangrin (1974) and Ousmane Sembene's Les Bouts de bois de Dieu (1960), reveal a range of adaptation. In the first, the categories of hero and object of the quest show degradation and thereby signal a decline in possibilities for heroism under colonialism. In the second, categories of hero and heroic action are revised, challenging the hierarchical norms implicit in the epic. The initiation story also bears.
520 $aEvidence of differential adaptation. Camara Laye's Le Regard du roi (1954) nostalgically seeks to assert the old order, in which community and nature are one and supreme, while Jean-Marie Adiaffi's modifications in La Carte d'identite (1980) signal important changes in contemporary society--heterogeneity and new forces and issues--changes for which this metaphysical form seems inappropriate. In her examination of the fable, Julien shows that in the neo-colonial context.
520 $aThis genre lends itself to sophisticated experimentation in political discourse. Sony Labou Tansi's La Vie et demie (1979) and Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Devil on the Cross (1982) caricature the puerile representatives of political and economic power through grotesque physical appetites and bodily deformations.
650 0 $aAfrican fiction (French)$xHistory and criticism.
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650 4 $aTradition orale$xAfrique.
650 4 $aTradition orale dans la littérature.
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776 08 $iOnline version:$aJulien, Eileen, 1949-$tAfrican novels and the question of orality.$dBloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1992$w(OCoLC)645826789
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