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The Resource The African palimpsest : indigenization of language in the West African europhone novel, Chantal Zabus, (electronic resource)
The African palimpsest : indigenization of language in the West African europhone novel, Chantal Zabus, (electronic resource)
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- Summary
- Uniting a sense of the political dimensions of language appropriation with a serious, yet accessible linguistic terminology, The African Palimpsest examines the strategies of 'indigenization? whereby West African writers have made their literary English or French distinctively 'African'. Through the apt metaphor of the palimpsest ? a surface that has been written on, written over, partially erased and written over again ? the book examines such well-known West African writers as Achebe, Armah, Ekwensi, Kourouma, Okara, Saro?Wiwa, Soyinka and Tutuola as well as lesser-known writers from francop
- Language
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- eng
- eng
- Edition
- 2nd enl. ed.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (282 p.)
- Note
- Description based upon print version of record
- Contents
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- The African Palimpsest; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. (M)Other Tongue and the Third Code; 2. Glottopolitics and Diglossia in West Africa; 3. Pidginization and Multilingual Strategies; 4. The West African Palimpsest: Case-Studies in Relexification; 5. The Visible Trace and Beyond; 6. Towards Othering the Foreign Language; Works Cited; Appendix: Tables and Figures; Index
- Isbn
- 9781435611818
- Label
- The African palimpsest : indigenization of language in the West African europhone novel
- Title
- The African palimpsest
- Title remainder
- indigenization of language in the West African europhone novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Chantal Zabus
- Language
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- eng
- eng
- Summary
- Uniting a sense of the political dimensions of language appropriation with a serious, yet accessible linguistic terminology, The African Palimpsest examines the strategies of 'indigenization? whereby West African writers have made their literary English or French distinctively 'African'. Through the apt metaphor of the palimpsest ? a surface that has been written on, written over, partially erased and written over again ? the book examines such well-known West African writers as Achebe, Armah, Ekwensi, Kourouma, Okara, Saro?Wiwa, Soyinka and Tutuola as well as lesser-known writers from francop
- Cataloging source
- MiAaPQ
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Zabus, Chantal J
- Dewey number
- 306.440966
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- English
- LC call number
- P40.45.A358
- LC item number
- Z33 2007
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Cross/cultures,
- Series volume
- 4
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Sociolinguistics
- West African fiction
- West African literature
- Label
- The African palimpsest : indigenization of language in the West African europhone novel, Chantal Zabus, (electronic resource)
- Note
- Description based upon print version of record
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-232) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
- cr
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Contents
- The African Palimpsest; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. (M)Other Tongue and the Third Code; 2. Glottopolitics and Diglossia in West Africa; 3. Pidginization and Multilingual Strategies; 4. The West African Palimpsest: Case-Studies in Relexification; 5. The Visible Trace and Beyond; 6. Towards Othering the Foreign Language; Works Cited; Appendix: Tables and Figures; Index
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Edition
- 2nd enl. ed.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (282 p.)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781435611818
- Media category
- computer
- Media type code
- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
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- (CKB)1000000000480761
- (EBL)556643
- (OCoLC)714567343
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- Label
- The African palimpsest : indigenization of language in the West African europhone novel, Chantal Zabus, (electronic resource)
- Note
- Description based upon print version of record
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-232) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
- cr
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Contents
- The African Palimpsest; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. (M)Other Tongue and the Third Code; 2. Glottopolitics and Diglossia in West Africa; 3. Pidginization and Multilingual Strategies; 4. The West African Palimpsest: Case-Studies in Relexification; 5. The Visible Trace and Beyond; 6. Towards Othering the Foreign Language; Works Cited; Appendix: Tables and Figures; Index
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Edition
- 2nd enl. ed.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (282 p.)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781435611818
- Media category
- computer
- Media type code
- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
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- (CKB)1000000000480761
- (EBL)556643
- (OCoLC)714567343
- (SSID)ssj0000099857
- (PQKBManifestationID)11990799
- (PQKBTitleCode)TC0000099857
- (PQKBWorkID)10014624
- (PQKB)11669861
- (MiAaPQ)EBC556643
- (EXLCZ)991000000000480761
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