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African authors in French
African childhood memoirs
African creative expression
African cultural continuity
African cultural heritage
African cultural identity
African cultural memory
African cultural reclamation
African cultural restoration
African drama and poetry
African existential reflection
African heritage and modernity
African independence narratives
African intellectual history
African literary chronicles
African literary heritage revival
African literary history
African literary innovation
African literary modernism
African literary self-exploration
African literary symbolism
African literature and European education
African literature in translation
African myth and legend studies
African mythopoetic writing
African narrative traditions
African personal narrative
African poetry and drama
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African storytelling and folklore
African storytelling tradition
African symbolic storytelling
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colonial and postcolonial identity
colonial legacy in literature
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Francophone African literature
Francophone literature of Africa
identity and self-discovery in Africa
indigenous African narratives
indigenous mythology and symbolism
literary exploration of heritage
literary expression of colonization
literary memory of colonization
literary representation of African childhood
oral storytelling revival
personal reflection in African writing
postcolonial African literature
postcolonial identity exploration
rediscovery of oral traditions
search for cultural equilibrium
Product details
- ISBN 9780870235573
- Weight: 229g
- Dimensions: 148 x 207mm
- Publication Date: 16 Mar 1987
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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First published in France as Le Pagne Noir: Contes Africains in 1955. The writing of such chronicles of an African childhood was the author's way of coming to terms with the questions every sensitive colonized person educated in the Western tradition would sooner or later have to ask: Who am I? Where do I come from? Where am I going? While giving poetic and fictional expression to the tensions of independence and the events that led to it, the writer realized that he would at the same time have to rediscover his oral tradition. It was a natural development of what the new African poetry and drama in French, English, and, later, Portuguese, were already doing--probing the inner mysteries of indigenous mythology and symbolism. Only in this way could the enlightened African restore a sense of equilibrium in his people's culture. From the foreword by Es'kia Mphahlele, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Bernard Binlin Dadie is a novelist, playwright, and poet.
