Briault Manus Vicki Emerging Traditions: Toward a Postcolonial Stylistics of Black South African Fiction in English 9780739148075

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Автор: Briault Manus Vicki
Название: Emerging Traditions: Toward a Postcolonial Stylistics of Black South African Fiction in English
ISBN: 9780739148075
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Литературоведение: постколониальная литература

Литературоведение: художественная литература, романисты и прозаики

ISBN-10: 0739148079
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 308
Вес: 0.70 кг.
Дата издания: 19.05.2011
Язык: English
Размер: 23.11 x 15.75 x 3.05 cm
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: Toward a postcolonial stylistics of black south african fiction in english
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: The monograph explores the linguistic impact of the colonial and postcolonial situations in South Africa on language policy, on literary production and especially on the stylistics of fiction by indigenous South Africans writing in English. A secondary concern is to investigate the present place of English in the multilingual spectrum of South African languages and to see how this worldly English relates to Global English, in the South African context. The introduction presents a socio-linguistic overview of South Africa from pre-historic times until the present, including language planning policies during and after the colonial era and a cursory review of how the difficulties encountered in implementing the Language Plan, provided for by the new South African constitution, impinge on the development of black South African English. Six chapters track the course of English in South Africa since the arrival of the British in 1795, considered from the point of view of the indigenous African population. The study focuses on ways in which indigenous authors indigenize their writing, innovating and subverting stylistic conventions, including those of African orature, in order to bend language and genre towards their own culture and objectives. Each chapter corresponds to a briefly outlined historical period that is largely reflected in linguistic and literary developments. A small number of significant works for each period are discussed, one of which is selected for a case-study at the end of each chapter, where it is subjected to detailed stylistic analysis and appraised for the degree of indigenization or other linguistic or socio-historic influences on style. The methodology adopted is a linguistic approach to stylistics, focusing on indigenization of English, inspired by the work of Chantal Zabus in her book, The African Palimpsest: Indigenization of Language in the West African Europhone Novel (2007, (1991)). The conclusion reappraises the original hypothesis - that the specific characteristi

Emerging Traditions: Toward a Postcolonial Stylistics of Black South African Fiction in English, Briault Manus Vicki