The African palimpsest : : indigenization of language in the West African europhone novel / / Chantal Zabus.
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...
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| Superior document: | Cross/cultures, 4 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Edition: | 2nd enl. ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cross/cultures ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (282 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- (M)Other Tongue and the Third Code
- Glottopolitics and Diglossia in West Africa
- Pidginization and Multilingual Strategies
- The West African Palimpsest: Case-Studies in Relexification
- The Visible Trace and Beyond
- Towards Othering the Foreign Language
- Works Cited
- Tables and Figures
- Index.