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- Title: Bernth Lindfors: The Archive and the Question of Truth (1) (Research Work on African Literature )
- Author : Ariel
- Release Date : January 01, 2002
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 201 KB
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In his 1978 lecture in Ibadan on "The Future of African Literary Studies," Bernth Lindfors argues for the necessity to create an archive for literary studies, pleading for the heritage of the larger Nigerian community. He calls for a Nigerian repository, inquiring why there is none, and what is being done about it: "Please forgive my monotonous aggressiveness. I'm only asking the questions that your posterity will ask of you." Finally he brings forth the basis on which his passionate pleas rest, and on which his own scholarship turns as well--the core of the kola: "You may wonder why I am so obsessed with the preservation of literary documents. The reason is that I believe that this way truth lies" (167). This is the truth of his work: a truth that has been at the centre of Research in African Literatures for all the years of his editorship (2), and of his research and teaching for this long career of scholarship and discipline-shaping. This is the truth of literary studies as understood by the academy: