Ekwensi, C.

Japanese: エクウェンシ,C. - えくうぇんし
Ekwensi, C.

… 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 [Children's Literature]

…Nigeria has Achebe, Kenya has Ngugi. Nigeria's C. Ekwensi's picaresque adventure stories also retain the simple and straightforward tone of old tales. [Keishu Sugawara]
[Orient]
The East includes three of the world's four great civilizations (China, India, and Islam), each of which produced excellent literature from an early period, many of which have direct and indirect connections with later children's literature.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Ekwensi, C." is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

… 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。…

【児童文学】より

…ナイジェリアにアチェベ,ケニアにグギがいる。ナイジェリアのエクウェンシC.Ekwensiのピカレスク風冒険物語も昔話の単純直截な語りの口調を保持している。【菅原 啓州】
【東洋】
 東洋は世界の四大文明圏の三つ(中国,インド,イスラム)を含み,それぞれはやくからすぐれた文学を生みだしたが,そのなかには後世の児童文学と直接間接に関係の深いものが少なくない。…

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