‘Looting killed’ the audience: Africanlanguage writing, performance, publishing and the audience
Literator
| Field | Value | |
| Title | ‘Looting killed’ the audience: Africanlanguage writing, performance, publishing and the audience | |
| Creator | Selepe, T. J. | |
| Description | This article examines the role played by African-language writing, performance and publishing, including critical practice, in the demise of the indigenous audience in African-language literary practice. Using implicit materialism the argument is premised on the developments wrought by the era of Modernism that has lead to a univocal writing of world history, and the era of Postmodernism that has ushered in the era of a multivocal writing of world history. The transition from oral literature to written literature will also be used to advance the argument about the subsequent exclusion of the indigenous African- language audience from literary practice. This exclusion is considered to have a direct bearing on the under-development of African societies. Finally, possible solutions will be sought by revisiting some of the causes that characterize the African language problem as a medium of communication and research. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2001-06-13 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/lit.v22i3.1055 | |
| Source | Literator; Vol 22, No 3 (2001); 59-74 Literator; Vol 22, No 3 (2001); 59-74 2219-8237 0258-2279 | |
| Language | eng | |
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