<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> This article treats selected oral poems whose topoi or motifs have transcended time and space to play out themselves in modern African fictions where colonial languages and their consequent habits of thought serve as media of enunciation. Thereafter, it beams attention on African scholars and writers who have attempted, presumably, to translate the oral medium of expression into indigenous and/or colonial written form(s) while maintaining the navel-strings that linked them, through the transfer of topoi and from the local and indigenous language to the Europhone form which, though, has led to international recognition, also serves to affirm a classic consequential illustration of the zero sum game</p></abstract>

This article treats selected oral poems whose topoi or motifs have transcended time and space to play out themselves in modern African fictions where colonial languages and their consequent habits of thought serve as media of enunciation. Thereafter, it beams attention on African scholars and writers who have attempted, presumably, to translate the oral medium of expression into indigenous and/or colonial written form(s) while maintaining the navel-strings that linked them, through the transfer of topoi and from the local and indigenous language to the Europhone form which, though, has led to international recognition, also serves to affirm a classic consequential illustration of the zero sum game

African Literary Topoi in Modern African Texts and the Problematics of Europhone Forms

Romanian Journal of English Studies

This article treats selected oral poems whose topoi or motifs have transcended time and space to play out themselves in modern African fictions where colonial...

African Literary Topoi in Modern African Texts and the Problematics of Europhone Forms

Published Online: Feb 22, 2013

Page range: 1 - 17

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2013-0001

Keywords
African oral literature, African novel, African poetry, Europhone forms, topoi

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African Literary Topoi in Modern African Texts and the Problematics of Europhone Forms

Published Online: Feb 22, 2013

Page range: 1 - 17

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2013-0001

KeywordsAfrican oral literature, African novel, African poetry, Europhone forms, topoi

This content is open access.

Keywords
African oral literature, African novel, African poetry, Europhone forms, topoi