Kwaku Addae Gyasi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4875477 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kwaku Addae Gyasi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kwaku Addae |
| FAMILY NAME | Gyasi |
| SIGNATURE | GYASI K A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama in Huntsville |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From God's Bits of Wood to Smouldering Charcoal
Cet article analyse le rôle des femmes dans la résistance à l'exploitation dans deux romans africains, Les Bouts de bois de Dieu (Ousmane Sembène) et Smouldering Charcoal (Tiyambe Zeleza). Il démontre que les vestiges de la colonisation, même plusieurs années après la décolonisation, incitent toujours les femmes à redoubler d'efforts dans leur tentative de lutter contre l'oppression. Sembène utilise la grève des travailleurs du chemin de fer Daka…
The African writer as translator
The relationship between the African writer and the language of the former colonial power has often been studied in ideological terms. The classical approach has consisted in examining the attitudes and reactions of African writers in the use of an alien tongue rather than the writer's re-appropriation of the foreign language in the creative writing process. This paper attempts to re-orient the reflection on the imaginary, that is, on the creativ…
Writing as Translation
Literature is about people, their society, their culture, their institutions. But it is also, and especially, about language, the medium through which the people's society, culture, and institutions are expressed. It can therefore be safely asserted, without any fear of contradiction, that to talk about literature is to talk about language. However, this simple assertion becomes problematic when it is applied to the situation of African literatur…
Writing as Translation
Literature is about people, their society, their culture, their institutions. But it is also, and especially, about language, the medium through which the people's society, culture, and institutions are expressed. It can therefore be safely asserted, without any fear of contradiction, that to talk about literature is to talk about language. However, this simple assertion becomes problematic when it is applied to the situation of African literatur…
The African writer as translator
The relationship between the African writer and the language of the former colonial power has often been studied in ideological terms. The classical approach has consisted in examining the attitudes and reactions of African writers in the use of an alien tongue rather than the writer's re-appropriation of the foreign language in the creative writing process. This paper attempts to re-orient the reflection on the imaginary, that is, on the creativ…
Writing as Translation
Literature is about people, their society, their culture, their institutions. But it is also, and especially, about language, the medium through which the people's society, culture, and institutions are expressed. It can therefore be safely asserted, without any fear of contradiction, that to talk about literature is to talk about language. However, this simple assertion becomes problematic when it is applied to the situation of African literatur…
The African writer as translator
The relationship between the African writer and the language of the former colonial power has often been studied in ideological terms. The classical approach has consisted in examining the attitudes and reactions of African writers in the use of an alien tongue rather than the writer's re-appropriation of the foreign language in the creative writing process. This paper attempts to re-orient the reflection on the imaginary, that is, on the creativ…
From God's Bits of Wood to Smouldering Charcoal
Cet article analyse le rôle des femmes dans la résistance à l'exploitation dans deux romans africains, Les Bouts de bois de Dieu (Ousmane Sembène) et Smouldering Charcoal (Tiyambe Zeleza). Il démontre que les vestiges de la colonisation, même plusieurs années après la décolonisation, incitent toujours les femmes à redoubler d'efforts dans leur tentative de lutter contre l'oppression. Sembène utilise la grève des travailleurs du chemin de fer Daka…
African history and culture studies (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Literature (2 works)