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Journal of Emerging Trends in Educational Research and Policy Studies (JETERAPS) (Vol 1 No 1)
| Abstract: In the past, undergraduate long essays in Ghanaian universities tended to be inspired by works from the so-called 'Great Tradition' of English literature, such as works by Shakespeare, Chaucer, Milton, Hardy, Wordsworth, Blake, Dickens, etc. This appears to be changing. No longer are students of English at the Departments of English in Ghanaian universities interested in these writers and their works. On the contrary, there is a general trend of functioning within a 'domestic' tradition of literatures in English, including translated works from African folklore and orature. This paper examines the factors responsible for the shift, mainly the rise of African literature, cultural re-orientation on the part of students and faculty, the multiplicity of 'centres' in the syllabuses of the Departments of English, as well as the impact of the Heinemann African Writers Series (AWS). It establishes clearly that, indeed, there is a shift in axis towards the study of African literature in English and comes to the conclusion that the trend, as reflected in the two universities, might be quite representative of the larger picture in other Ghanaian universities and universities in the so-called Third World. The significance of the findings of this research is its attempt to provoke further debate with regard to the study of literatures in English in contemporary times. |
| Keywords: great tradition', afrocentric, eurocentric, shift, centre, multiplicity. |
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