TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gyasi,Kwaku Addae
TI  - The Francophone African Text: Translation and the Postcolonial Experience (Francophone Cultures and Literatures) 
SN  - 9780820478302
U1  - 840.996 23
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  - Peter Lang Publishing
KW  - European - French
KW  - General
KW  - Literary Criticism
KW  - Literature - Classics / Criticism
KW  - Africa
KW  - African literature (French)
KW  - Bilingualism
KW  - History and criticism
N2  - "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
ER  -