Based on a stylistic analysis of selected African novels, centrally Okot p’Bitek’s Lak Tar/White Teeth (1953; English translation: 1989), this article identifies a narrative technique employed by these novels, to use heterogeneous genres inserted into the prose fiction of the novel. Typically, various genres of poetry are used in this way, creating a textuality that is richly “heteroglossic” (Bakhtin, 1981). However, the range of genres that can be used in this way is not limited and includes proverbs, sayings, songs, newspaper articles, letters, or more recently digital texts such as blogs or tweets. The article uses the term “generic fracturing” to refer to this technique. Generic fracturing is used in novels for specific purposes. The article focuses on the employment of a genre of Acoli praise poetry, mwoc, in White Teeth for characterization. It is further argued here that such heterogeneous genres do not only serve to construct the narrative, but are in fact markers of thought systems that differ from the “default” ontology, epistemology, and aesthetics of the novel. These features were inherited from the genre’s European history and imposed in Africa by colonial administration through which novelistic production was initially engineered. Generic fracturing is thus a textual strategy to effectuate disruptions and subversions of an intellectual framework that was a colonial imposition, and it points towards alternative ways of thinking. These were usually derived from local African cultural traditions in early African-language novelistic production. Generic fracturing, however, continues being used up to the present day in African novels to signal the co-existence and interaction of heterogeneous knowledges and philosophical frameworks.

基于对非洲精选小说的风格分析，主要是Okot p'Bitek的Lak Tar / White Teeth（1953；英语翻译：1989），本文确定了这些小说采用的叙事技术，以使用插入小说中的异类体裁。小说。通常，以这种方式使用各种体裁的诗歌，从而创造出一种富有“异质性”的文本性（Bakhtin，1981）。但是，可以以这种方式使用的体裁范围不受限制，并且包括谚语，谚语，歌曲，报纸文章，信件或最近的数字文本（例如博客或推文）。本文使用术语“常规压裂”来指代该技术。泛型压裂在小说中用于特定目的。本文着重介绍阿科利（Acoli）赞美诗的用法，mwoc，在白牙用于表征。在这里进一步论证说，这样的异类流派不仅用于建构叙事，而且实际上是与小说的“默认”本体论，认识论和美学不同的思想体系的标志。这些特征是从该类型的欧洲历史继承而来，并在殖民地行政管理下强加于非洲，最初是通过这种方式设计新颖的作品。因此，通用断裂是一种文本策略，用于实现对知识结构的破坏和颠覆，这是殖民时期的强加于人，并且它指向其他的思维方式。这些通常来自早期非洲语言小说创作中的当地非洲文化传统。但是，普通压裂