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Literary Translation And Culture Consciousness: The Experience Of Translating D.O. Fagunwa's Igbo Olodumare From Yoruba Into English, Pamela J. Olúbùnmi Smith Jun 1993

Literary Translation And Culture Consciousness: The Experience Of Translating D.O. Fagunwa's Igbo Olodumare From Yoruba Into English, Pamela J. Olúbùnmi Smith

Goodrich Scholarship Faculty Publications

Le processus de traduction implique l'interprétation précise du sens contextuel du texte-source dans la mesure où les contraintes syntaxiques et associatives de la langue cible le permettent. À cette fin, le traducteur littéraire doit se poser les questions fondamentales suivantes avant de commencer la traduction d'une œuvre : quelle est l'essence stylistique de l'original ? quels en sont l'intention et le but ? Que faire lorsque le texte est culturellement marqué ? C'est en tenant compte de ces interrogations que nous examinerons la traduction du yoruba à l'anglais de Igbo Olodumare de D.O. Fagunwa.

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If God Was A Woman By Stanley Nyamfukudza, Pamela J. Olúbùnmi Smith Oct 1992

If God Was A Woman By Stanley Nyamfukudza, Pamela J. Olúbùnmi Smith

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Written from a male point of view, If God Was A Woman is a book of ten contemporary stories about women's and men's lives and relationships, women's condition, their desires, wants, and needs.

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The Last Harmattan Of Alusine Dunbar By Syl Cheney-Coker, Pamela J. Olúbùnmi Smith Jan 1991

The Last Harmattan Of Alusine Dunbar By Syl Cheney-Coker, Pamela J. Olúbùnmi Smith

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A reenactment of the Edenic plunder. The setting? Anglophone Anywhere, West Africa. The time? Pre- colonial, colonial, and postcolonial period. The action? The brigandage and plunder of Africa, the old yet new drama of the psychological and political effects of duplicity, and the near-genocidal tendency inherent in the lack of communal cohesiveness. What follows is all too familiar.

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Fafa By Ebou Dibba, Pamela J. Olúbùnmi Smith Jan 1991

Fafa By Ebou Dibba, Pamela J. Olúbùnmi Smith

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With the "coming if age" of African literature, a new generation of African writers are accessing publishing avenues such as the Macmillan Publishing Company's "M" series.

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Voices From Twentieth-Century Africa: Griots And Towncriers By Chinweizu, Pamela Jo Thompson Jan 1990

Voices From Twentieth-Century Africa: Griots And Towncriers By Chinweizu, Pamela Jo Thompson

Foreign Languages and Literature Faculty Publications

Voices from Twentieth-Century Africa, a comprehensive, one-volume introduction to African literature, is a spinoff of Chinweizu's (et alia) previous work, Toward the Decolonization of African Literature (1983; see WLT 58:2, p. 313), and a forerunner to the "anthology of 5000 years of Pan-african Literature promised therein.

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Chinweizu, Ed., Voices From Twentieth Century Africa, Pamela J. Olúbùnmi Smith Jan 1990

Chinweizu, Ed., Voices From Twentieth Century Africa, Pamela J. Olúbùnmi Smith

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Voices from Twentieth-Century Africa, a comprehensive, one-volume introduction to African literature, is a spinoff of Chinweizu's (et alia) previous work, Toward the Decolonization of African Liternature (1983; see WLT 58:2, p.313), and a forerunner to the "anthology of 5000 years of Pan-african Literature" promised therein.

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Tribaliks: Contemporary Congolese Stories By Henri Lopes, Andrea Leskes, Pamela J. Olúbùnmi Smith Jan 1988

Tribaliks: Contemporary Congolese Stories By Henri Lopes, Andrea Leskes, Pamela J. Olúbùnmi Smith

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The primary aim of every translation is to make the original accessible to a wider audience. This is particularly true of translations of literary works written in African and European languages (French and Portuguese).

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Ngambika: Studies Of Women In African Literature By Carole Boyce Davies, Anne Adams Graves, Pamela J. Olúbùnmi Smith Jan 1988

Ngambika: Studies Of Women In African Literature By Carole Boyce Davies, Anne Adams Graves, Pamela J. Olúbùnmi Smith

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Prior to the publication of Lloyd Brown's Women Writers in Black Africa (1981), Kenneth Little's Sociology of Urban Women's Image in African Literature (1980; see WLT 55:3, p.518), and Davies and Grave's Ngambika (1986), African feminist criticism existed merely in the form of occasional articles on or interviews with African women writers.

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Art And Ideology In The African Novel: A Study Of The Influence Of Marxism On African Writing By Emmanuel Ngara, Pamela J. Olúbùnmi Smith Apr 1986

Art And Ideology In The African Novel: A Study Of The Influence Of Marxism On African Writing By Emmanuel Ngara, Pamela J. Olúbùnmi Smith

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At a time when African writers and critics are deliberately engaged in a search for a matrix within which African literary esthetics may be defined and formulated, Emmanuel Ngara's singular study of the influence of Marx- ism on African writing is a welcome contribution to the critical canons of the modern African novel. Undoubtedly, this search for a matrix calls for a constant definition of the role not only of art but also of the artist in society. On a continent still struggling to liberate itself from the impact of imperialism and Eurocentrism, it is small wonder that social- ism …

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Critical Perspectives On Ngugi Wa Thiong'o By G. D. Killam, Pamela J. Olúbùnmi Smith Jan 1985

Critical Perspectives On Ngugi Wa Thiong'o By G. D. Killam, Pamela J. Olúbùnmi Smith

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Acknowledging the vast and continuing "realignments of power and long overdue reassessments of the cultures of the third world," the editors of the Critical Perspectives series propose, through a projected thirty-six critical monographs, to provide Euro-American audiences with the "documents and polemics" which reflect the reality of these realignments and reassessments. The thirteenth volume to appear in the series, Critical Perspectives on Ngugi wa Thiong' o, is one such document, comprising twenty-four essays by and about Ngugi, East Africa's foremost novelist and social critic (see WLT 59:1, pp. 26-30). Divided into six sections, the volume contains interviews with Ngugi and …

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Ifa Divination Poetry By Wande Abimbola, Pamela J. Olúbùnmi Smith Oct 1978

Ifa Divination Poetry By Wande Abimbola, Pamela J. Olúbùnmi Smith

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Until the publication of Wande Abimbola's !fa Divin­ation Poetry much of the scant information available on the fascinating but complex Ifa geomantic system, commonly identified with the Yoruba of Western Nigeria, has been limited to the general comments of anthropologists and folklorists, whose studies of the system have been less significant parts of larger studies. !fa Divination Poetry is the product of long years of apprenticeship, diligent data collecting from renowned Ifa priests and research. This literary work is appropriately divided into two parts. The first part is a brief history of the elaborate system of divina­tion and an introduction …

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