Corpus de la première littérature francophone d'Afrique noire, écrite et orale, des origines aux indépendances (fin 18e siècle-1960) / édité par Claude Blum.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blum, Claude.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

African literature (French).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

Littérature de l'Afrique noire

Other title from Garnier website: Corpus of the early francophone literature of black Africa, written and oral, from the origins to independence (end 18th century-1960)

Other title from Garnier website: Literature from black Africa

Place of Publication:

Paris : Classiques Garnier Numérique, [2008?]

Language Note:

Introductory information, user guides and tours of the databases have French and English versions.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"In all, this exhaustive corpus of more than 11,000 texts covers the whole of sub-Saharan francophone Africa, that is some twenty countries and more than a hundred ethnic groups and brings together the most diverse genres of this literature which has yet to be discovered and studied (novels, tales, short stories, narrative accounts, theatre, poetry, myths, legends, fables, proverbs, riddles, songs)." Countries: Benin (ex-Dahomey); Burkina Faso (ex-Haute-Volta); Burundi; Cameroon; Congo (Brazzaville); Ivory Coast ; Djibouti; Ethiopia; Gabon; Guinea; Mali (ex-French Soudan); Mauritania; Niger; Central Africa ; Democratic Republic of Congo (ex-Zaire); Rwanda; Senegal; Tchad; Togo.

Notes:

Title from web page (viewed Aug. 17, 2009).

OCLC:

430956321

Access Restriction:

Access restricted to site license.