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Africanism

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Af·ri·can·ism  (fr-k-nzm)
n.
1. A characteristically African cultural feature, such as a belief or custom.
2. A linguistic feature of an African language occurring in a non-African language.
Africanism [ˈæfrɪkəˌnɪzəm]
n
something characteristic of Africa or Africans, esp a characteristic feature of an African language when introduced into a non-African language


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What Africanism became for, and how it functioned in, the literary imagination is of paramount interest because it may be possible to discover, through a closer look at literary 'blackness,' the nature --even the cause--of literary 'whiteness.
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