Afro-Asian Literature is a term used to refer to writings or novels made by people from mixed African-Arab ethnicity or African-Asian ethnicity
Afro is a term used to describe a hairstyle, specifically worn by Black people. It's appearance is naturally kinky or tightly curled hair styled in a round shape
Asian - relating to ASIA and its people, customs and languages
Africa - The name Africa came into Western use through the Romans, who used the name Africa terra – “land of the Afri” (plural, or “Afer” singular) – for the northern part of the continent, as the province of Africa with its capital Carthage, corresponding to modern-day Tunisia
AFRO-ASIANS, African Asians or simply BLACKASIANS often referred to BLASIANS, are persons of mixed ASIAN AND AFRICAN ancestry
Countries under Afro-Asian Literature: South Korea, North Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, China, India, Egypt, and Israel
The importance of Afro-Asian Literature is to improve reading comprehension, critical thinking, creative, writing, and communication skills
Afro-Asian Literature mirrors not only the customs and traditions of African and Asian countries, but also their philosophy of life which as a whole are deeply and predominately contemplative and hauntingly sweet
Literature comes from the Latin word Litera meaning Letters
Algeria is the largest country in Africa, previously Sudan
Africa has 54 countries in total, making it the second largest continent in the world
Asia on the other hand, has 48 countries, making it the largest continent in the world
Russia is the biggest country in Asia
The word Asia is originated from the Ancient Greek word Aoia, first attributed to Herodotus (about 440BCE) in reference to Anatolia or to the Persian Empire, in contrast to Greece and Egypt. It originally was a name for the east bank of the Aegean Sea, an area known to the Hittites as Assuwa
Comes from the fact that AFRO-ASIAN is a sign of new and moderntimes.
-includes all kinds of people, from all places on earth
traditional ballads or poems are part of cultures oral history
, poems or songs were handed from one generation to generation,
told the unique struggles and successes of Afro-Asian people
Afro-Asians still express their creativity and honor their creativity and honor their culture by crafting beautiful poems such as HAIKUS, BALLADS, and SONNETS
Playwrights show a celebration of their culture and ancestry by setting plays in the past
A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music
-Song or poem with catchy rhythm scheme
The haiku is a Japanese poetic form that consists of three lines, with five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third
The sonnet is a fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter, employing one of several rhyme schemes, and adhering to a tightly structured thematic organization
Prose - used to expose the truth to describe objects, places and people to draw reader deeper into a story
- Fictionalprose: novels, short stories, screenplays
- Heroicprose: legends and fables
Norm - Standard or pattern especially social behavior that is typical expected of a group
Culture - defined as the shared patterns of behaviors and interactions, cognitive constructs and affective understanding that are learned through socialization
Norms and Culture:
highest degree of culture- is embodied within a virtue of respecting other humans, either as an individual or a part of the community
African Literature
Diverse as the continent itself
Emphasis on people’s history and culture
Handed down orally from generation to generation
Entertains and reminds people of heroic deeds, ancestry, and culture
Literary works were handed by mouth from generation to generation to entertain and remind the people of heroic deeds of their people, ancestry and culture
It is a sign of new and modern times, these times include from all kinds of people from all kinds of people from all places on earth