Indigenization of language in the African francophone novel (Record no. 120743)
| 000 -LEADER | |
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| fixed length control field | 02628nam a2200385 a 4500 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 843.009/96 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Vakunta, Peter W. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Indigenization of language in the African francophone novel |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | New York : |
| Name of publisher | P. Lang, |
| Year of publication | c2011. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xii, 166 p. |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Francophone cultures and literatures, |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Translation in African literature -- Theorizing literary postcoloniality -- Literary postcolonialism -- Translation and postcolonial theory -- African literature and the question of orality -- The socio-cultural context of contemporary fictional writing in Africa -- Theoretical foundations of orality and literacy -- Interface between orality and literacy in African literature -- Indigenization as a literary canon in the novels of Nazi Boni, Ahmadou Kourouma and Patrice Nganang -- The technique of "bwamufication" in Boni's Cr�epuscle des temps anciens -- Reflexification of French words -- Proverbs, ideophones, and other rhetorical devices -- Oralization of written discourse -- The "malinkelization" of French discourse in Les soleils des ind�ependances -- Intralingual translation in Les soleils des ind�ependances -- Proverbs, idiomatic expressions, and other linguistic innovations -- Translating orality into the written word -- Code-switching as a narrative technique in Nganang's Temps de chien -- Camfranglais -- Pidgin English -- Indigenous languages. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | African fiction (French) |
| Topical Term | Language and culture |
| Topical Term | Postcolonialism. |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10516885 |
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