De Afrikaanse Roman en de Westerse Lezer. Probleemschets en Gevalstudie

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" De Afrikaanse Roman en de Westerse Lezer. Probleemschets en Gevalstudie "
Julien Vermeulen

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1063978
Doc. No	:	LA107607
Call No	:	‭10.1163/2031356X-00201002‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Julien Vermeulen
Title & Author	:	De Afrikaanse Roman en de Westerse Lezer. Probleemschets en Gevalstudie [Article]\ Julien Vermeulen
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Afrika Focus
Date	:	1986
Volume/ Issue Number	:	2/1
Page No	:	3–21
Abstract	:	African literature, like any other literature remote in space or time, can be approached in two different ways. We can read it from our own point of view and try to appreciate it with our own literary standards. We can also try to read it as it was experienced and appreciated by its immediate audience, which means by the African public at the time of publication. Reactions given by a group of Dutch-speaking readers on a novel by E. Dongala clearly illustrate that the second approach is hardly achievable, however attractive it may seem. So we have to accept that every reading of an African literary work implies a serious degree of creative treason. African literature, like any other literature remote in space or time, can be approached in two different ways. We can read it from our own point of view and try to appreciate it with our own literary standards. We can also try to read it as it was experienced and appreciated by its immediate audience, which means by the African public at the time of publication. Reactions given by a group of Dutch-speaking readers on a novel by E. Dongala clearly illustrate that the second approach is hardly achievable, however attractive it may seem. So we have to accept that every reading of an African literary work implies a serious degree of creative treason.
Descriptor	:	African literature in French
Descriptor	:	E. Dongala
Descriptor	:	literary criticism
Descriptor	:	Literary reception
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/2031356X-00201002‬