Realisme en roman in Afrika

Samenvatting

Realism and the novel in Africa. In different times and cultures, "reality" is experienced in different ways. Reality and knowledge about it are socially determined and therefore relative. How and to what degree does the writer succeed in making us believe that literature "copies" reality? After a theoretical introduction, the realism of the Senegalese novelist Sembène Ousmane - his realistic intentions, themes and techniques are analyzed with examples from his novel Gods Bits of Wood.