The Francophone African Text
Subtitle: Translation and the Postcolonial Experience (Francophone Cultures and Literatures)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Published: September 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 133
ISBN-13: 9780820478302
Subjects: European - French; General; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Africa; African literature (French); Bilingualism; History and criticism; Translating and interpreting
Description: "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.