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Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of 'Things Fall Apart'My English, My Literature: Owning Our African Englishes and Literatures

Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of 'Things Fall Apart': My English, My Literature: Owning Our... [Despite this era of World Englishes, the question of whose language African novelists use and, hence, whose literature they produce remains. It is not uncommon for readers of African literature to assume that what they read from Africa is a translation from African indigenous languages, but who owns the English language that African authors use in their writing? Are these authors using a borrowed language, or is the English they use their own? And whose culture is expressed in the writing? Using Margaret Ogola’s novel entitled The River and the Source within the World Englishes paradigm, this current work proposes that the English Ogola and other African authors use are entirely their own and the cultures they express fully African.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of 'Things Fall Apart'My English, My Literature: Owning Our African Englishes and Literatures

Part of the African Histories and Modernities Book Series
Editors: Baloubi, Désiré; Pinkston, Christina R.
Michieka, Martha
Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of 'Things Fall Apart' — Dec 10, 2020
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-50796-1
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49 –63
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-50797-8_4
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Abstract

[Despite this era of World Englishes, the question of whose language African novelists use and, hence, whose literature they produce remains. It is not uncommon for readers of African literature to assume that what they read from Africa is a translation from African indigenous languages, but who owns the English language that African authors use in their writing? Are these authors using a borrowed language, or is the English they use their own? And whose culture is expressed in the writing? Using Margaret Ogola’s novel entitled The River and the Source within the World Englishes paradigm, this current work proposes that the English Ogola and other African authors use are entirely their own and the cultures they express fully African.]

Published: Dec 10, 2020

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