num_pages: 133
description: Focusing on the African writer and the language of the former colonial power, The Francophone African 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 of the subject from the broader perspective of postcolonial discourse.
language: English
title: The Francophone African Text: Translation and the Postcolonial Experience
titlecomplete: The Francophone African Text: Translation and the Postcolonial Experience (Francophone Cultures and Literatures)
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers