Luso African Studies

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The Afrolusitanistik (more rarely also called Lusoafrikanistik ) describes the scientific occupation with the language, literature and culture of those African countries south of the Sahara, in which the Portuguese is the official language :

Various Creole languages (os crioulos) emerged from the contact between Portuguese and African languages ​​and are the subject of research in Creole studies.

Afrolusitan studies were and are carried out especially at the universities of Leipzig (until about 1992), Rennes (France), Lisbon (Portugal) and Maputo (Mozambique). For many years, the research group headed by Matthias Perl (Leipzig, later Mainz) was in the lead for Afrolusitanistic linguistics , who, in collaboration with Africanists, discovered for the first time typical interferences in the African Portuguese varieties due to linguistic contact with African languages.

literature

The German Society for African States of the Portuguese Language , based in Bonn, has published its DASP booklet four times a year since 1985.

For literary studies there has been an extensive conference volume (570 pages) of the Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian of the Center Culturel Portugais in Paris since 1985 with the files of the International Colloquium (November 28-30, 1984) on the subject of Les Litteratures Africaines de Langue Portugaise . Also of importance:

  • Manuel Ferreira (Ed.): No reino de Caliban. Antologia panorâmica da poesia africana da expressão portuguesa. 2nd edition 1986. 3 volumes. Lisbon 1975–1985 (French; anthology of Luso-African poetry).
  • Jean-Michel Massa, Matthias Perl (eds.): La Langue Portugaise en Afrique. Université de Haute Bretagne, Rennes 1989 (French).
  • Matthias Perl (ed.): Contributions to Afrolusitan and Creole studies. Brockmeyer, Bochum 1989.
  • Matthias Perl u. a .: Portuguese and Crioulo in Africa. History - grammar - lexicon - language development. Brockmeyer, Bochum 1994.

French secondary literature, for example, is available from Nordmann-Seiler.

Since 1964, the special collection area " Sub-Saharan Africa " has been looked after by the Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library in Frankfurt am Main on behalf of the DFG . Report on the status of the research

  • A. Schönberger, 1988.
  • Ruth Degenhardt, Thomas Stolz, Hella Ulferts (Eds.): Afrolusitanistik - a forgotten discipline in Germany? Documentation of the 2nd Bremer Afro-Romania Colloquium from June 27-29, 1996. University of Bremen, Bremen 1996, ISBN 3-88722-395-0 .