Abstract
The book deals with the study of functioning of Romance languages in sub-Saharan Africa, namely in the francophone and lusophone countries as well as Spanish-speaking Equatorial Guinea. It offers a detailed description of the sociolinguistic profile of this area, studies the state of the relationship between the Romance and local languages from a historic and modern perspective, analyzes the language politics in these African countries in the postcolonial period. A special emphasis is made on the issue of identity in the African states on the background of the process of decentrement of the geocultural spaces, the key mechanisms thereof being miscegenation and creolization. The literary discourse is regarded as the area of manifestation of the new postcolonial cultural matrix. It involves diverse speech and discursive strategies – those of indigenization and rhetoric modus. The monograph is based on the new illustrative material, that has not been subjected to a detailed research. The book may be used for teaching different disciplines such as linguistics, literary studies, ethnology, sociology, theory of communication, ethnolinguistics. It may be of interest to a large readership.
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