Talk:Sudanese literature

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Contents 1 Stub 2 Layout 3 Further avenues for research 4 Confusion of Name

[edit] Stub

This is a horrible little stub, please someone with more knowledge on the subject expand :) - FrancisTyers 21:15, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

'A Sudanese literature developed and many books were written. Leo Africanus, who wrote wone of the best known works on the Western Sudan, says: "In Timbuctoo there are numerous judges, doctors and clerics, all receiving good salaries from the king. He pays great respect to men of learning. There is a big demand for books in manuscript, imported from Barbary (North Africa). More profit is made from the book trade than from any other line of business.'

Clarke, J. H. (1964) "The Search for Timbuctoo" in The Journal of Negro Education, pp. 125-130

[edit] Layout

Preliminary layout, bearing in mind I don't know anything about Sudanese literature.

• Pre-Islamic literature ( — 640)
• Islamic and Ottoman era (640 — 1898)
• Colonial era (1898 — 1953)
• Modern literature (1953 — )

- FrancisTyers 22:37, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Further avenues for research

• Source: “Sudanese Pioneer Women in the Field of Literature”, Ahfad University for Women, Documentation Unit for Women Studies, Women in Development Series, 1999, with collaboration of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Khartoum Office. [1]

[edit] Confusion of Name

The name Sudan comes from the Arabic word for black and was used in the sense of Black Africa. This is why Leo Africanus talks about Timbuctoo. There already is a wikipedia article on African literature. Most English readers will expect this one to be about literature in the Sudan, the country they can see represented on a map, some distance from Timbuctoo.Gallador 02:14, 8 May 2007 (UTC)