Albert Stanislaus Gérard (1920-1996) was a Belgian scholar of comparative literature, specializing in African literature.[1] His African Language Literatures was praised by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o as a "pioneering survey of literature in African languages".[2]

Works

  • L'idée romantique de la poésie en Angleterre. Étude sur la théorie de la poésie chez Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats et Shelley, 1955. Translated as English romantic poetry : ethos, structure, and symbol in Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats, 1968
  • Four African literatures: Xhosa, Sotho, Zulu, Amharic, 1971
  • (ed.) Black Africa, 1972
  • African language literatures : an introduction to the literary history of Sub-Saharan Africa, 1981
  • European-language writing in sub-Saharan Africa, 1985
  • Contexts of African literature, 1990

References

  1. ↑ Zabus, Chantal (1998). "Albert S. Gérard". Research in African Literatures. 29 (1): 199–201.
  2. ↑ Ngũgĩ wa, Thiong'o. Decolonising the Mind. James Currey. p. 24. ISBN 9780852555019.


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