A HISTORY OF TIGRINYA LITERATURE IN ERITREA
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Author:
Ghirmai Negash
Publisher: CNWS Publications, Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands
City: Leiden, The Netherlands
Document Type: Book መጽሓá
Category: Educational ትáˆáˆ…áˆá‰³á‹Š, Historical ታሪኻዊ
Date: 1999
Pagination: 236
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This is a groundbreaking work, by Ghirmai Negash, a scholar of Eritrean literatures and languages, who has taught in Eritrea, Europe, and the United States. In this book, he focuses on the origins and development of Tigrinya literature in Eritrea, Tigrinya being one of the major languages of Eritrea, as well as Ethiopia. Negash divides the history of Tigrinya literature into 4 broad periods. The first period spans from 1895-1916. According to Negash, the first published text in the Tigriny] language was a travelogue written by Fesseha Giyorgis, and published in 1895. This travelogue described the author's trip from Eritrea to Italy. It is interesting to note that it was the colonial experience which gave birth to written Tigrinya literature. The second period spans from 1917-1948; it is what Negash calls a period of "stillness and revival". The stillness, or relative absence of Eritrean literature in this period, stems from the nature of the colonial system of education in Eritrea. The revival is attributed to the end of Italian colonialism in the early 40s, and the establishment of a more liberal education system in the post-war period. The third period, 1949-1975, is dominated by the development of the Tigrinya novel. The final period, 1976-1991, is characterized by "writers of the resistance and writings of the exiles".
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Artifact record edited by Lwam Ghebrehariat at 2006-05-18 14:43:30
Publisher: CNWS Publications, Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands
City: Leiden, The Netherlands
Document Type: Book መጽሓá
Category: Educational ትáˆáˆ…áˆá‰³á‹Š, Historical ታሪኻዊ
Date: 1999
Pagination: 236
Extras:
[view fulltext]
Notes:
This is a groundbreaking work, by Ghirmai Negash, a scholar of Eritrean literatures and languages, who has taught in Eritrea, Europe, and the United States. In this book, he focuses on the origins and development of Tigrinya literature in Eritrea, Tigrinya being one of the major languages of Eritrea, as well as Ethiopia. Negash divides the history of Tigrinya literature into 4 broad periods. The first period spans from 1895-1916. According to Negash, the first published text in the Tigriny] language was a travelogue written by Fesseha Giyorgis, and published in 1895. This travelogue described the author's trip from Eritrea to Italy. It is interesting to note that it was the colonial experience which gave birth to written Tigrinya literature. The second period spans from 1917-1948; it is what Negash calls a period of "stillness and revival". The stillness, or relative absence of Eritrean literature in this period, stems from the nature of the colonial system of education in Eritrea. The revival is attributed to the end of Italian colonialism in the early 40s, and the establishment of a more liberal education system in the post-war period. The third period, 1949-1975, is dominated by the development of the Tigrinya novel. The final period, 1976-1991, is characterized by "writers of the resistance and writings of the exiles".
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Artifact record edited by Lwam Ghebrehariat at 2006-05-18 14:43:30
