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| Uniform title | Geschichte der neoafrikanischen Literatur. English |
| Contents |
Definitions: 'From the rubbish-heap'. World literature and national literatures. The cultures of Africa. The literatures of Africa -- Early writers of African descent: Pre-Islamic and early Islamic romances. Juan Latino, a renaissance 'African'. Black 'guinea-pigs' in the age of enlightenment. Slaves and grand seigneurs -- African oral literature: What is oral literature? The material. Some stylistic forms of the 'praise song' -- Afro-Arabic literature: Hausa literature. Swahili poetry. A Swahili autobiography and Swahili occasional verse -- 'Apprentice' and 'protest' literature: Definitions. Apprentice literature -- The tragedy of southern Bantu literature: Sotho literature. Xhosa literature. Zulu literature -- Nineteenth-century Afro-American literature: From romanticism to symbolism (Haiti and Brazil). The accounts of escaped slaves (United States). The writings of the preachers. Creative literature in the U.S.A. Two poets from Cuba. Creole poetry in Louisiana -- 'Minstrelsy' and Voodoo: The African heritage in America. Extravaganzas and slapstick comedies (U.S.A. and Cuba). The patriotic school (Haiti). 'Nigger minstrels' in literature -- The negro spiritual: Content: death and rebirth. Form: the magic of the word. Interpretation: liberation or salvation? -- Blues and Calypso: Blues form and blues logic. Blues and folk-song. The right to live and 'Magara'. The Calypso -- The 'negro renaissance': 'Race-consciousness' and 'class-consciousness'. How important is the African heritage? -- The 'golden years' -- The depression: 'Depression' writers. Development of style -- 'Indigenism' and 'negrism': Indigenism in Haiti. Negrism in Cuba. Development of style -- The negritude school: Caliban and Prospero. The achievements of negritude. The meaning of negritude. Negritude and its critics -- Conclusion: towards modern African literature. |
| General note | Translation of Geschichte der neoafrikanischen Literatur. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographies. |
| LCCN | 68058154 |
