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| Titel: |
Narrative, history, novel: intertexuality in the historical novels of Ayi Kwei Armah and Yvonne Vera |
| Auteur: |
Wilson-Tagoe, Nana |
| Verschenen in: |
Journal of African cultural studies |
| Paginering: | Jaargang 12 (1999) nr. 2 pagina's 155-166 |
| Jaar: |
1999-12 |
| Inhoud: |
To have or not to have a history is a major anxiety in all areas of contemporary thought in Africa. History was the locus of difference that separated civilized from uncivilized in European perceptions of Others. Anxieties about history are thus anxieties about the meaning of history and the mode of its appropriation or representation. The African writer's conscious conflation of written narrative and indigenous oral forms are often ways of experimentation, ways of finding new means of locating different views of history and new ways of articulating them. This paper explores the problematics of this kind of experimentation through a framework of intertexuality. The anxiety about continuity, it seems will always create such ambivalences in narratives of history. For every reconstruction that a narrative achieves, there will always be other stories struggling to break out of the ruptures that are glossed over for the sake of continuity. The framework of intertextuality will enable the ruptures to be read even within the continuities. |
| Uitgever: |
Routledge |
| Bronbestand: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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