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Uniting a sense of the political dimensions of language appropriation with a serious, yet accessible linguistic terminology, The African Palimpsest examines the strategies of 'indigenization' whereby West African writers have made their literary English or French distinctively 'African'. Through the apt metaphor of the palimpsest - a surface that has been written on, written over, partially erased and written over again - the book examines such well-known West African writers as Achebe, Armah, Ekwensi, Kourouma, Okara, Saro-Wiwa, Soyinka and Tutuola as well as lesser-known writers from francophone and anglophone Africa. Providing a great variety of case-studies in Nigerian Pidgin, Akan, Igbo, Maninka, Yoruba, Wolof and other African languages, the book also clarifies the vital interface between Europhone African writing and the new outlets for African artistic expression in (auto-)translation, broadcast television, radio and film.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. (M)Other Tongue and the Third Code
2. Glottopolitics and Diglossia in West Africa
3. Pidginization and Multilingual Strategies
4. The West African Palimpsest: Case-Studies in Relexification
5. The Visible Trace and Beyond
6. Towards Othering the Foreign Language
Works Cited
Appendix: Tables and Figures
Index
