“Wɔta Don Pas Gari”: EnPi as the Post-Ethnic Voice in Nigeria

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1 juin 2017

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Presses universitaires François-Rabelais

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culture écriture discours culture discourse writing Ethnic Studies SOC008000 JFSL

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Cultural sociology Culture--Social aspects Sociology of culture

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Chantal Zabus, « “Wɔta Don Pas Gari”: EnPi as the Post-Ethnic Voice in Nigeria », Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, ID : 10.4000/books.pufr.3778

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Susceptibility in post-colonial criticism of Sub-Saharan African literatures has developed around two household words: "tribe" (hence "tribal" and "tribalism") and "vernacular" (also "patois" and "dialect"). Whereas "tribe" allegedly harks back to the immutable, "always already" pre-literate, primitive clans cherished by anthropologists and ethnographers, "vernacular" with its negative Latin etymology (vernaculus = slave) has struck a sensitive chord among African(ist) linguists eager to prom...

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