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- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- ISSN
- 0084-4152
- eISSN
- 2222-4297
- DOI
- 10.1163/22224297-90003098
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Abstract
French Studies AFRICAN AND CARIBBEAN LITERATURE By BELINDA JACK, Christ Church, Oxford I. GENERAL The following abbreviation is specific to this section: Semper Aliquid Novi: Semper Aliquid Novi. Litterature Comparee et Litteratures d'Afrique. Melanges o.fferts a Albert Gerard, Tiibingen, Narr xi+ 404 pp., a major publication containing some thirty-five articles divided into four sections. The first deals with Gerard's work, the second focuses on the theory and methodology of comparative literature, the third (and largest) is concerned with African literatures, and the last concen trates on the history of African theatre. Hans-Jiirgen Liisebrink, Schrifi, Buch und Lekture in der franzosischsprachigen Literatur Afrikas. Zur Wahrnehmung und Funktion von Schrifilichkeit und Buchlecture in einem kulturellen Epochenumbruch der Neuzeit, Tiibingen, Niemeyer, v + 355 pp., is a detailed study of the genesis and development of Francophone book culture in Africa. The length of the title reflects the length of the work which lacks overall coherence. Nevertheless, this is an important study. Abiola Irele, 'Orality, literacy and African literature', Semper Aliquid Novi, 25I-63, focuses on the intertext between the oral and written cultures and argues that the vitality of African literature (in both indigenous and European languages) lies in the dialectic which it