The Francophone African Text: Translation and the Postcolonial Experience (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820478302)

Focusing on the African writer and the language of the former colonial power, The Francophone African Text: Translation and the Postcolonial Experience highlights the writer's re-appropriation of the foreign language in the creative writing process. It calls attention to the African writer's use of French, a process of creative translation in which the writer's words form a hybrid code that compels the original French to refer to the indigenous African language for meaning. Examining a group of works under the theme of translation, this book reveals that a consideration of both ideological and linguistic elements enhances understanding of the subject from the broader perspective of postcolonial discourse.

Author: Tamara Alvarez-Detrell, Kwaku A. Gyasi
ISBN-10: 082047830X
ISBN-13: 9780820478302
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 09/04/2006
Pages: 136
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.38d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2006 pg. 295