VEDA PUBLISHING HOUSE OF THE SLOVAK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES SLOVAK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES INSTITUTE OF LITERARY SCIENCES DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL STUDIES EDITORS JOZEF GENZOR VIKTOR KRUPA ASIAN AND AFRICAN STUDIES SLOVAK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES BRATISLAVA INSTITUTE OF LITERARY SCIENCES DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL STUDIES XXIII 1987 1988 VEDA, PUBLISHING HOUSE OF THE SLOVAK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES • BRATISLAVA CURZON PRESS • LONDON PUBLISHED OUTSIDE THE SOCIALIST COUNTRIES SOLELY BY CURZON PRESS LTD • LONDON ISBN 0 7007 0211 3 ISBN 0571 2 7 4 2 © VEDA, VYDAVATEĽSTVO SLOVENSKEJ AKADÉMIE VIED, 1988 CONTENTS A rtic le s G á I i k, Marián: Some Remarks on the Process of Emancipation in Modern Asian and African Literatures ................................................................................................................... 9 G ru ner, Fritz: Some Remarks on Developmental Tendencies in Chinese Contempo­ rary Literature since 1979 ....................................................................................................... 31 Doležalová, Anna: New Qualities in Contemporary Chinese Stories (1979 — Early 1 9 8 0 s ).................................................................................................................................. 45 Kalvodová, Dana: Time and Space Relations in Kong Shangren's Drama The Peach Blossom Fan ........................................................................................................................... 69 Kuťka, Karol: Some Reflections on the Atomic Bomb Literature and Literature on the Atomic Bomb and Occupation of Ja p a n .................................................................... 77 Múčka, Ján: Le caractére du manage dans la famille vietnamienne classique .... 87 Klím a, Vladimír: Ethnicity in Sub-Saharan W riting ............................ 101 Ekpo, Monday U.: Symbol and Myth in I bibio Cultures ............................................... 115 Krupa, Viktor: The Role of Metaphor in the Extension of Indonesian and Malay Vocabulary in Comparison with M a o ri ........................................................................ 131 D ro zd ík , Ladislav: Culturally Conditioned Shifts from Multiword to One-Word Units in the Lexicon of Modern Written A rabic .................................................................... 141 Zim a, Petr: Notes sur le dynam isme du systéme verbal dans u n dialecte haussa du N ig e r ..................................................... 149 Blaškovič, Jozef— Kopčan, Vojtech: Türkische Briefe und Urkunden zur Geschichte des Eyälet Nové Zámky. I........................................................................ I 157 Sorby, Karol: Dedine of Mamlüks' Power in Egypt (1803—1804)........................... 171 Voderadský, Ján:Economic Factors in Anticolonial Movements in West Africa . 201 Pawliková-Vilhanová, Viera: The Knowledge of Africa in Slovakia. From the Ear­ liest Times till 1900 ............................................................................................................... 221 Review Articles Gálik, Marián: Some Remarks on Contemporary Asian and "African "Philosophy . 235 Celnarová, Xénia: Zwei Beiträge zur Problematik Bewegung des Volkswiderstands in der Türkei......................................................................................................................... 251 Zimová, Naďa: The Atatürk C entennial ............................................................................ 263 !5 Book Reviews Methapor. A Bibliography of Post-1970 Publications. By Viktor K rupa......................... 269 Dev Sen, Nabaneeta: Counterpoints. Essays in Comparative Literature. By Marián G á lik............................................................................................................................................ 270 D o i, Toshio: The Study of Language in Japan. A Historical Survey. By Viktor Krupa 272 N o v o tn ý , Bohuslav et al.: Encyklopédia archeológie. By Viktor Krupa......................... 274 Natsionalno-kulturnaya spetsifika rechevogo obshcheniya národov SSSR. By Slavo Ondrejovič ............................................................................................................................... 275 B u ti nov, N. A.: Sotsialnaya organizatsiya polineziitsev. By Viktor K rupa.................... 277 S tin g l, Miloslav: Kunst der Südsee. By Jozef Genzor......................................................... 278 Sim m ons, D. R.: Iconography of New Zealand Maori Religion. By Jozef Genzor . 279 Savage, Victor R.: Western Impressions of Nature and Landscape in Southeast Asia. By Viktor K r u p a....................................................................................................................... 281 Ngu phap tieng Viet. Par Ján Múčka ...................................................................................... 282 Phan Cu De—Ha Minh Due: Nha van Viet Nam (1945 — 1975). Par Ján Múčka 284 I to h, Teiji: Die Gärten Japans. By Viktor Krupa .................................................................. 285 Modern Chinese. A Basic Course. By Viktor K r u p a.............................................................. 286 G er net, Jacques: A History of Chinese Civilization. By Marián Gálik............................. 287 Y ue D a iy u n — W ake man, Carolyn:To the Storm. The Odyssey of a Revolutionary Chinese Woman. By Marián G á lik...................................................................................... 293 Chiu, Hungdah— Leng, Shao-chuan (Eds): China. Seventy Years after the 1911 Hsin-hai Revolution. By Marián G á l i k.............................................................................. 296 Chan Sin-wai: Buddhism in Late Ch'ing Political Thought. By Marián Gálik.... 297 Habsburgisch-osmanische Beziehungen. Relations Habsbourg-ottomanes. Wien 26.— 30. September 1983. Von Vojtech Kopčan.............................................................. 300 Türkische Kunst und Kultur aus osmanischer Zeit I, II. Von Vojtech K o p č a n................ 303 Faro q hi, Suraiya. Town and Townsmen of Ottoman Anatolia. Trade, Crafts and Food Production in an Urban Setting, 1520 — 1650. By Vojtech Kopčan................ 307 Bom hard, A. R.. Toward Proto-Nostratic. A New Approach to the Comparison of Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Afroasiatic. By Ladislav D ro zd ík ............................. 310 V erste eg h , Kees. Pidginization and Creolization: The Case of Arabic. By Ladislav D ro zd ík...................................................................................... 311 Kästner, H.— W a ld ma n n, A.: Aussprache und Schrift des Arabischen. By Ladislav D ro zd ík....................................................................................................................................... 312 Schregle, Götz: Arabisch deutsches Wörterbuch. By Ladislav D rozdík......................... 313 Pabst, Klaus-Eberhard: Kleines Wörterbuch marxistisch-leninistischer Termini. Deutsch- Arabisch-Englisch-Französisch. By Ladislav D r o z d ík................................. 320 Sublet, Jacqueline (Responsable): Cahiers d'onomastique arabe (1982 — 1984). Par Ladislav D ro z d ík ....................................................................................................................... 321 Brugman, J.; An Introduction to the History of Modern Arabic Literature in Egypt. By Ladislav D r o z d ík............................................................................................................... 323 H a m ilto n , A.: William Bedwell The Arabist. 1563 — 1632. By Ladislav Drozdík . 324 Collins, Jeffrey G.: The Egyptian Elite under Cromer, 1882 — 1907. By Karol Sorby 325 BOOKS RECEIVED ....................................................................................................................... 327 6 ARTICLES ASIAN AND AFRICAN STUDIES XXIII, 1988 SOME REMARKS ON THE PROCESS OF EMANCIPATION IN MODERN ASIAN AND AFRICAN LITERATURES MARIÁN GÁLIK, Bratislava This comparative study aims to present the characteristic features of the interliterary process in Asian literatures especially between 1917— 1945 and in African literatures chiefly after the World War II up to 1960. A brief analysis is made of the genesis and the initial development of these literatures before the mentioned period, but attention is paid principally to the questions relating to transformations that took place within the domain of social consciousness, literary traditions, innovations, Western impact and domestic response. East—West literary relations are shown here against the background of representative modern literatures of Asia and Africa. Under the “process of emancipation” we understand here the second stage in the development of modern literatures of Asian and African countries which in the 19th and 20th century took the road of modernization or began to be formed. The first stage of development had begun in 1839 in Turkey, in Bengal about 1860, in Iran in 1875, in Japan in 1880, almost at the close of the century in China, and during the first years of the 20th century in Vietnam.1 This significant period in the history of various national literatures does not mark a time of the first meeting with the European cultural area, not even with European literatures, but modern national literary structures then began to be formed for the first time, considerably differing from those of earlier days; such structures for which the foreign impact on the part of European literatures was a sine qua non condition. In this connection,