[authorme] PUBLISHING EMERGING WRITERS, NOVEMBER, 2010
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In this issue...
The Imagination of Children, by Sean Noonan (USA)
African Literature, by Ernesto Pramasetya
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The Imagination of Children
By Sean Noonan (USA)
What is so powerful about the stories I write are the thoughts and imagination
of my family, especially Elannah and Sam. In actual fact a lot of the plot and
character traits have a great deal to thank for our children's creativity.
Their thoughts are always so vibrant and, after all, what better way to write a
children's story than to have the ideas and thoughts of our children intimately
involved in the story's creation. I think this works especially well with the
way in which the stories connect with the younger readers. I have read at the
local school for the nursery and primary ages and the children always respond
with fascination and wonder. Such looks of joy on their faces as I read the
book. Quite reward enough for any author.
My main motivation for the stories is to entertain and engage my children. When
we are young we have such powerful imaginations but as we grow older that power
can become eroded and faded. If as Albert Einstein supposedly said "all of our
problems and our solutions are products of our imaginations," then we must be
very careful about what we do with our children's imaginations.
Both my children are creative and have active and vivid imaginations and I am
lucky enough to be able to have them help with 'the Everlasting and Fantastical
Adventures of Elannah and Sam' collection of stories. When we all sit to talk
about a particular part of a plot we have to carefully take it in turns to each
have a say or the room is pandemonium for the flood of ideas that demand to be
heard.
Elannah's creativity was soon apparent to us at a very young age as she had a
way when she painted that was just beyond her years. We have paintings of hers
on our wall from when she was two or three. Her ability to express herself in
paint was very inspiring with me. This love of expressing her ideas in pictures
also inspired her to draw the pictures that are in the books.
Those pictures are especially loved by the children who read or who listen to
the stories and you can see them exploring the sketches with great enthusiasm
once they grab a hold of the book.
Sam was quite quiet at first and we wondered if he would be overshadowed by his
elder sister who loves to talk and to share her ideas. Boys in general also
tend
to be quieter and less vocal than girls so we were worried at first. We need
not
have worried though, as when Sam was old enough, he has shown himself to be
very
able at holding his own in a conversation and when we go out for walks together
he will talk constantly as he rambles through the woods. Again his imagination
is clear to see as he creates characters and stories to entertain us while we
stroll, run and jump.
From the plots, characters and ideas we create have come such a pleasure in the
stories we write and although I am named the Author I have to admit there is so
much of the family in the books that I truly cannot claim much of the credit.
Sean Noonan -Author
A salty seadog who has 'swallowed the anchor' and come ashore. Married to a
rare
woman, Liz, with two adorable muses for kids. Living in Scotland and enjoying
creating imaginative adventure stories for kids of any age.
http://everlastingfantasticaladventures.blogspot.com/
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Article Source:
http://www.articlebiz.com/article/1051291275-1-the-imagination-of-children/
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African Literature
By Ernesto Pramasetya
African literature, oral and written literatures produced in Africa. Africa has
a really long literary tradition, but really little amount of this literature
to
the 20th Century was written. In the absence of a broad literacy, African
literatures were mainly transmitted orally from generation to generation
through
memorization and recitations.
The majority is of African literature written in European languages by the
European colonization of the Continent of 16 Century to the mid-20th Century.
This time displaced European languages African languages in the government,
education, businesses and, to a large part in everyday communication. By far
the
most popular language in the European literature of Africa is English, French
and Portuguese, respectively. Books in African languages and traditional oral
texts went unnoticed until the late 20th Century, but today receive more
recognition. Many experts prefer the term African literature, but of African
literature, emphasizing the variety of literary traditions known by the term.
This survey relates only to the literature of the SSA. Literature from North
Africa are not included because the cultures of North Africa a greater affinity
to share with the Arab worlds with the peoples and cultures of the Sahara (for
details, see the Arabic literature.) The literature of white South Africa is
also excluded because they are more on the European literary heritage is used.
Literacy in Arabic came to the continent of Africa with the introduction of
Islam in the kingdom of Ghana in the 11th Century by the Tare, indigenous
peoples of the Sahara. When Islam to other parts of West Africas through
literacy spread of jihad (holy war) and distributed. Islam depended on the
Quran
(Koran), the Holy Scripture, and is forced to learn passages by heart. From the
seventh century Arab influences were also prevalent on the east coasts of
Africa, where Arab traders and slaves were very active. The Arabic scripts were
adapted by the end of Swahili in East and Central Africa was the linguafranca
(language of trade and other cross-cultural communication).
The Christianity was a pathway for the introduction of literacy in Africa south
of Sahara. Christian missionaries on the continent was in the second half of
the
19 active, especially after the abolition of the slave trade and the growing
interest of Europeans in other types of trade. In areas in which Muslims
introduced literacy, mainly produces literature in African languages.
Article Source:
http://www.articlesbase.com/languages-articles/african-literature-3379002.html
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