AFRO-ASIAN LITERATURE

• Prose is used to describe the truth, objects, places, and people, to draw a reader deeper into a story.
• examples of AFRO-ASIAN Countries

  1. Philippines
  2. Thailand
  3. Saudia Arabia
  4. Malaysia
  5. Indonesia
  6. North Korea
  7. Israel
  8. Egypt
  9. India
  10. Africa
  11. Vietnam
  12. Japan
• Norms is a standard of pattern. Especially of social behaviour, that is typically expected from a group.
• Culture defined as the shared pattern of behaviours and interactions, cognitive constructs, and effective understanding that are learned.
• Africa has 300 distinct ethnic group and 2000 language
• Essays, Novels, and short stories are example of prose
• Africa Countries

  1. Angola
  2. Chad
  3. Libya
  4. Guinea
  5. Malawi
  6. Togo
  7. Benin
  8. SUdan
  9. Niger
  10. ZImbabwe
• Africa is the second largest continent
• Asia is bounded by Artic Ocean to the north, the pacific to the east,
• Poems tells about history and culture such as haikos, ballads, and sonnets
• Playwrights celebrate their own culture and ancestry by setting plays in the past
• Playwright, Poems, and Prose are the genre of afro-asian literature
• African literature is as diverse as the continent itself
• african literature greatly emphasizes on?

  1. History
  2. Culture
  3. Customs
• Afro- asian literature is handed down by the word of mouth from generation to generation
• Afro- asian literature is a sign of modern times
• Widespread african oral traditions is reach in: Folktales, myths, riddles and proverbs
• African literature conveys an imaginative view of the world , serves as a religious, social, educational function
• Africa has no history of traditions of written literature
• French- African writers have re-examined the past from a new perspective
• Topics such as sex and politics are seldom explored because it is still censored by many countries
• The Characteristics of african literature are:

  1. slave narratives
  2. Protests against colonization
  3. Call for independence
  4. African pride, hope for the future and dissent
• African literature increases our social conciousness and awareness on: social, political, and economic crises
• These characteristics are present in most books: Language and Historical
• Language refers to african literature coming in written or oral form
• Before colonialism, africans tell their story orally or through a performance with music
• Africans wrote in languages such as English, Portuguese or french
• Historical refers to african literature focusing on themes like freedom, independence, and questions of identitiy or liberation
• The scramble period of africa is between the year 1881 and 1914
• The three countries untouched were dervish state, liberia, ethiopia
• The slave trade in africa lasted for 400 years
• The antlantic slave trade involved 12 million african people working as a slave
• The first generation narrators are: Ottobah Cugoano, Olaudah Equiano, and Ignatius Sancho
• Asian Literature is vast and diverse
• The significant attributes of asian literature are: folklore, philosophy, poetry, religion and spirituality, and History
• Folklore refers to the various myths, legends, and folktales
• Philosophy refers to the influence of key philosophical concepts
• Poetry refers to the prominent genre in literature
• Religion and spirituality refers to many lit in asia incorporates motifs relation to it.
• History - asian literature presents examination of historical events