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1 (M)Other Tongue and the Third Code 1
A Indigenization in the Text 4
B Indigenization in the Context 8
List of Linguistic Informants 12
2 Glottopolitics and Diglossia in West Africa 13
A The First Glottophagi 18
B Official Languages and Lingua Francas 25
C Media of Instruction and Curricular Subjects 28
D Media of Literary Expression 35
E Decolonization at the Crossroads 47
3 Pidginization and Multilingual Strategies 51
A Joyce Cary: "Crocodile Writing" and Pidginization 59
B Beyond the Levity of Pidgin: Ekwensi's Jagua Nana 68
C Pidgin in Stasis: The Nigerian Illiterati 76
D Acts of Identity and Code-Switching 'Over the Ragged Fence' 84
E (M)Other Tongue Code-Switching: Scriptural Aporia 93
F Extinct and Surviving Species: Pitineg and Enpi 101
4 The West African Palimpsest: Case-Studies in Relexification 111
A The Ancestor of Relexification: Calquing in Amos Tutuola's The Palm-Wine Drinkard 120
B Bound to Textual Violence: Gabriel Okara and Ahmadou Kourouma 135
C The Logos-Eaters: The Igbo Ethno-Text 148
D The Ethno-Text Fragmented: Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments 165
5 The Visible Trace and Beyond 175
Two Ways of Shadowing: Cushioning and Contextualization 175
A Naming the Gap in the Anglophone Novel 175
B Naming the Gap in the Francophone Novel 183
C Ken Saro-Wiwa's Sozaboy: Pidgin In Vitro 193
6 Towards Othering the Foreign Language 201
Works Cited 213
Appendix: Tables and Figures 233
Index 253
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