Albert S. Gérard Explained

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

Notes and References

1. Chantal . Zabus . Albert S. Gérard . Research in African Literatures . 29 . 1 . 1998 . 199-201.
2. Book: Ngũgĩ wa, Thiong'o . Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

   . Decolonising the Mind . Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o . 24 . 9780852555019 . James Currey.