The Francophone African Text : Translation and the Postcolonial Experience (Francophone Cultures and Literatures) / Kwaku Addae Gyasi

By:

Gyasi, Kwaku Addae [author]

Publisher: New York : Peter Lang Publishing, 2006Description: 133 pagesContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9780820478302
082047830X

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DDC classification:

840.996 GYA.48 23

Summary: "Focusing on the African writer and the language of the former colonial power, The Francophone African Text: Translation and the Postcolonial Experience highlights the writer's re-appropriation of the foreign language in the creative writing process. It calls attention to the African writer's use of French, a process of creative translation in which the writer's words form a hybrid code that compels the original French to refer to the indigenous African language for meaning. Examining a group of works under the theme of translation, this book reveals that a consideration of both ideological and linguistic elements enhances understanding the subject from the broader perspective of post-colonial discourse."--Jacket.

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"Focusing on the African writer and the language of the former colonial power, The Francophone African Text: Translation and the Postcolonial Experience highlights the writer's re-appropriation of the foreign language in the creative writing process. It calls attention to the African writer's use of French, a process of creative translation in which the writer's words form a hybrid code that compels the original French to refer to the indigenous African language for meaning. Examining a group of works under the theme of translation, this book reveals that a consideration of both ideological and linguistic elements enhances understanding the subject from the broader perspective of post-colonial discourse."--Jacket.

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