Of Postcolonial Entanglement and<i>Durée</i>: Reflections on the Francophone African Novel

Adesanmi, Pius

doi:10.1215/-56-3-227

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“…Womanism is a reasoning that praises African roots, the beliefs of African life, while giving a clear presentation of the African woman liberation. Its ultimate aim is black solidarity where each African individual has some form of power (Adesanmi 2004 cited in: Alkali 2013: 241).…”

Section: Womanism and Emecheta's The Joys Of Motherhoodmentioning

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Translating Black Feminism: The Case of the East and West German Versions of Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood

Fakayode¹

2019

Revista Ártemis

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Feminism in Translation Studies has received a considerable amount of attention in the West, most especially in Canada from where it emanated. Also, studies in translation and Black Feminism have been carried out by scholars such as Silva-Reis and Araujo (2018) and Amissine (2015). There has, however been few studies focusing on the translation of literary texts by African feminist writers into German. This study therefore examined how Womanism in Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood was transferred into German. Against this backdrop, the two translations published during the division of Germany into two states by different political ideologies were analyzed. In doing this, Postcolonial Theory of translation as conceived by Spivak (2004) was employed. The study aimed at determining how translation mechanisms have influenced the manner in which black feminist activism is represented in a distinct socio-cultural environment. This is with the focus to indicate how Womanism is represented differently in the two German translations of the African novel.

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Section: Womanism and Emecheta's The Joys Of Motherhoodmentioning

confidence: 99%

Translating Black Feminism: The Case of the East and West German Versions of Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood

Fakayode¹

2019

Revista Ártemis

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Zeitlich-Räumliche Verflechtungen – Diskursiv-Materielle Verknüpfungen. Eine kritische gesellschaftstheoretische Perspektive auf globale Ungleichheit in der Sorge- und Hausarbeit in Westeuropa

Gutiérrez Rodríguez

2024

Neue Soziologische Theorie

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Rethinking Achille Mbembe’s ‘Provisional notes on the postcolony’

Adebanwi

Orock

2022

Africa

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Achille Mbembe's ground-breaking essay 'Provisional notes on the postcolony' (1992a) (hereafter 'Provisional notes') 1 is the most cited article published by the journal Africa. Three decades later, the article continues to influence the ways in which scholars account for the contradictions of socio-economic and political formations not only in Africa but in other postcolonial societies. In this part issue, we reconsider some of the vistas opened up by the essay in the analysis of different socio-political formations in Central, Southern and West Africa.Rarely does a single essay attain such significant influence as to immediately command the attention and critical response of colleagues and peers, enough to redirect debates and scholarship in a discipline or subfield. And yet, this is what Achille Mbembe achieved with his article. Remarkably, according to the entry in the contributors' biographies in that issue of the journal, this was one of Mbembe's earliest scholarly publications in English. Mbembe had already published very important books and essays on Cameroon's history in leading French outlets, between the mid-1980s and 1991mid-1980s and (see Mbembe 1985a1985b;1996). Furthermore, he had also been working for a few years as an academic at Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania in the USA after his doctorate in history from the leading French university, the Sorbonne, in 1988. Yet, it was primarily 'Provisional notes' 2 that first introduced Mbembe to the

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Of Postcolonial Entanglement andDurée: Reflections on the Francophone African Novel

Cited by 13 publications

References 15 publications

Translating Black Feminism: The Case of the East and West German Versions of Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood

Translating Black Feminism: The Case of the East and West German Versions of Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood

Zeitlich-Räumliche Verflechtungen – Diskursiv-Materielle Verknüpfungen. Eine kritische gesellschaftstheoretische Perspektive auf globale Ungleichheit in der Sorge- und Hausarbeit in Westeuropa

Rethinking Achille Mbembe’s ‘Provisional notes on the postcolony’

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