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| Title: | Politics in the Literatures of West, East and Central Africa |
| Author: | Sulzer-Jantzen, Peter |
| Year: | 1987 |
| Periodical: | Genève-Afrique: acta africana |
| Volume: | 25 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Pages: | 161-176 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Subsaharan Africa |
| Subjects: | political ideologies literature |
| Abstract: | Analysis of the political ideas and aspects presented in items of African literature - mainly novels written in English and French. The first African novel with a substantially political trend was 'Ethiopia Unbound' by the Ghanaian author J.E. CASELY-HAYFORD, published in 1911. From the 1930s to the early 1960s, négritude in West and Central Africa, and uhuru in East Africa, although grown in different soil, resulted in the same political aspects of African literature: they both reflected the multifaceted struggle for independence from colonial rule. The optimism of négritude and uhuru was followed, in the mid-1960s, by a more realistic approach of African literature to African politics. Outstanding features of the literature of the 1970s and beginning 1980s are a re-awakening of anti-White thinking, especially of anti-Americanism, and a trend to violence. However, there are some indications of a neutralization of anti-Western animosity. Bibliogr., notes, ref. |