Ghirmai Negash
Biographic Data
| ID | 3652506 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ghirmai Negash |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ghirmai |
| FAMILY NAME | Negash |
| SIGNATURE | NEGASH G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ohio University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Before Colonialism: Oral and Written Textualities in the Polyglotic Zone of the Horn of Africa: The Case of Tigrinya
In recent postcolonial literary and cultural studies, there has been renewed interest in the history and vitality of African-language textualities of the pre-colonial era. This article explores new terrain, surveying and shedding light on some of the significant texts and sites from the Tigrinya language and culture in Eritrea and Ethiopia. The Tigrinya language serves as a general medium of communication and an important literary language. A 200…
A Great Novel in a “Small” Language: Representations of the African Intellectual in the Eritrean Novel Tebereh's Shop
Tebereh's Shop (2003) is a remarkable novel written in Tigrinya, an important Horn of Africa literary language spoken in Eritrea and Ethiopia. It was written by Beyene Haile, an Eritrean novelist-cum-painter-cum-sculptor, who, though less known outside Africa, is regarded by his critics as one of the continent's major writers, contemporarily publishing in indigenous languages. The novel deals with the role of African intellectuals in the trajecto…
Native Intellectuals in the Contact Zone: African Responses to Italian Colonialism in Tigrinya Literature
This essay examines the critical responses of two African texts, The Author's Journey (1895) and The Conscript (1927, 1950), to Italian colonialism in Eritrea, and unpacks the relations between writing and authorial representations of imperial power, home, and the colonial order as particularized in those narratives. Written by Tigrinya intellectuals, who shared colonial education and wrote about the imperial European project with indigenous refl…
Dedicated to America: Melancholy and Laughter in Zakes Mda’s Cion
A History of Tigrinya Literature in Eritrea: The Oral and the Written, 1890-1991
A Great Novel in a “Small” Language: Representations of the African Intellectual in the Eritrean Novel Tebereh's Shop
Tebereh's Shop (2003) is a remarkable novel written in Tigrinya, an important Horn of Africa literary language spoken in Eritrea and Ethiopia. It was written by Beyene Haile, an Eritrean novelist-cum-painter-cum-sculptor, who, though less known outside Africa, is regarded by his critics as one of the continent's major writers, contemporarily publishing in indigenous languages. The novel deals with the role of African intellectuals in the trajecto…
Dedicated to America: Melancholy and Laughter in Zakes Mda’s Cion
A History of Tigrinya Literature in Eritrea: The Oral and the Written, 1890-1991
Dedicated to America: Melancholy and Laughter in Zakes Mda’s Cion
A Great Novel in a “Small” Language: Representations of the African Intellectual in the Eritrean Novel Tebereh's Shop
Tebereh's Shop (2003) is a remarkable novel written in Tigrinya, an important Horn of Africa literary language spoken in Eritrea and Ethiopia. It was written by Beyene Haile, an Eritrean novelist-cum-painter-cum-sculptor, who, though less known outside Africa, is regarded by his critics as one of the continent's major writers, contemporarily publishing in indigenous languages. The novel deals with the role of African intellectuals in the trajecto…
Native Intellectuals in the Contact Zone: African Responses to Italian Colonialism in Tigrinya Literature
This essay examines the critical responses of two African texts, The Author's Journey (1895) and The Conscript (1927, 1950), to Italian colonialism in Eritrea, and unpacks the relations between writing and authorial representations of imperial power, home, and the colonial order as particularized in those narratives. Written by Tigrinya intellectuals, who shared colonial education and wrote about the imperial European project with indigenous refl…
Before Colonialism: Oral and Written Textualities in the Polyglotic Zone of the Horn of Africa: The Case of Tigrinya
In recent postcolonial literary and cultural studies, there has been renewed interest in the history and vitality of African-language textualities of the pre-colonial era. This article explores new terrain, surveying and shedding light on some of the significant texts and sites from the Tigrinya language and culture in Eritrea and Ethiopia. The Tigrinya language serves as a general medium of communication and an important literary language. A 200…
African history and culture studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · African history and culture analysis (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · French horn (2 works)