Art and Ideology in the African Novel: A Study of the Influence of Marxism on African Writing, Volume 10 |
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... African languages , but with the exception of Swahili in Tanzania and Amharic in Ethiopia , these languages have remained subordinate to European ones . There has also been a general attempt to revive African culture , but much of the ...
... African languages , but with the exception of Swahili in Tanzania and Amharic in Ethiopia , these languages have remained subordinate to European ones . There has also been a general attempt to revive African culture , but much of the ...
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... African élite which cherished and promoted the bourgeois values that colonial languages and other instruments of cultural domination fostered . The use of a colonial language by African writers could therefore mean a promotion in ...
... African élite which cherished and promoted the bourgeois values that colonial languages and other instruments of cultural domination fostered . The use of a colonial language by African writers could therefore mean a promotion in ...
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... language and African languages . Without this , African writers could easily translate concepts expressed in English into African languages and end up dishing out chunks of neo - colonial culture to the masses in the masses ' own idiom ...
... language and African languages . Without this , African writers could easily translate concepts expressed in English into African languages and end up dishing out chunks of neo - colonial culture to the masses in the masses ' own idiom ...
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Contents | 9 |
Commitment Realism and Socialist | 11 |
Literature Society and Ideology | 20 |
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Achebe African languages African Literature African Novel African Writers Series Armah Arrow of God Bakayoko Beukes Bits of Wood bourgeois society bourgeoisie chapter characters class struggle consciousness critical realism cultural imperialism depicted dominant ideology economic Elias élite English epoch European language exploitation expression forces God's Bits Gordimer Goumba Grain of Wheat Guma Heinemann African Writers Ibid Ilmorog influence Karega Kenya Late Bourgeois World Lenin liberation linguistic literary Literature and Art London Lukács Marx and Engels Marxist aesthetics Marxist criticism masses movement Munira Nadine Gordimer narrative nationalist négritude neo-colonialism Ngara Ngugi Ngugi wa Thiong'o oppression Ousmane's para-linguistic affective devices peasants Petals of Blood philosophy poetry police political present Progress Publishers proletariat reality reflection revolution revolutionary rise ruling class social socialist art socialist realism South Africa strike stylistic criticism symbol Thiès Thiong'o Thousand Seasons traditional typical vision Wanja White women words workers