… West Africa, which, like South Africa, developed early in the development of broadcasting, publishing, journalism, and higher education, is a mecca for contemporary novels, especially Ghana and Nigeria. In Nigeria, there are Cyprian Ekwensi (1921- ), who has been active in the field of popular novels since the late 1940s, vividly depicting the urban life of Africans, and Amos Tutuola (1920- ), known for his work The Palm Wine Drinker (1952), which draws on Yoruba tales, but Achebe stands out in terms of his influence on later generations. In his debut novel, The Breakdown of the Tribes (1958), he pioneered a theme that can now be considered classic: the conflict between traditional African values and modern Western values, and the resulting tragedy on the African side. … From the Yoruba ...During the slave trade era, millions of Yoruba people crossed the Atlantic Ocean, and the Yoruba music they brought with them became the source of North American black music and calypso, and traditional Yoruba gods are still worshipped in Brazil and the West Indies today. Amos Tutuola (1920-), a composer known for The Palm Wine Drinker (1952), and Sunny Ade (1946-), a Nigerian pioneer of contemporary African music, can be said to be reviving the Yoruba tradition in the modern era. [Watanabe Shigeyuki] *Some of the terminology that mentions "Tutuola, A." is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
… 南アと並んで放送,出版などのジャーナリズム,高等教育機関の発達が早かった西アフリカ,特にガーナとナイジェリアは現代小説のメッカである。ナイジェリアでは1940年代後半からアフリカ人の都市生活を活写し,大衆小説の分野で息の長い活躍を見せているエクウェンシCyprian Ekwensi(1921‐ )やヨルバ説話に取材する《ヤシ酒飲み》(1952)で知られるチュチュオーラAmos Tutuola(1920‐ )らがいるが,後代への影響力の点でアチェベが傑出する。処女作《部族崩壊》(1958)で,彼はアフリカの伝統価値と西欧近代の価値との相克,そこから結果するアフリカ側の悲劇という,現在では古典的ともいえるテーマを開拓した。… 【ヨルバ族】より…奴隷貿易の時代には100万人単位のヨルバが大西洋を越えたが,彼らが伝えたヨルバ音楽は北アメリカの黒人音楽やカリプソの源流となり,ブラジルや西インド諸島では今日でもヨルバの伝統的な神々が礼拝されている。《やし酒飲み》(1952)で知られる作家チュチュオーラAmos Tutuola(1920‐ )やナイジェリア出身でアフリカ現代音楽の旗手サニー・アデ(1946‐ )は,このようなヨルバの伝統を現代によみがえらせるものといえよう。【渡部 重行】 ※「Tutuola,A.」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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