Albert S. Gérard
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Albert Stanislaus Gérard (1920-1996) was a Belgian scholar of comparative literature, specializing in African literature.[1] His African Language Literatures was praised by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o as a "pioneering survey of literature in African languages".[2]
Works
- L'idée romantique de la poésie en Angleterre. Étude sur la théorie de la poésie chez Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats et Shelley, 1955. Translated as English romantic poetry : ethos, structure, and symbol in Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats, 1968
- Four African literatures: Xhosa, Sotho, Zulu, Amharic, 1971
- (ed.) Black Africa, 1972
- African language literatures : an introduction to the literary history of Sub-Saharan Africa, 1981
- European-language writing in sub-Saharan Africa, 1985
- Contexts of African literature, 1990
References
- ^ Zabus, Chantal (1998). "Albert S. Gérard". Research in African Literatures. 29 (1): 199–201.
- ^ Ngũgĩ wa, Thiong'o. Decolonising the Mind. James Currey. p. 24. ISBN 9780852555019.
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