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Author : Jack Drake Rollins
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004659870
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book A History of Swahili Prose written by Jack Drake Rollins and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bertoncini Zúbková
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004668489
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Outline of Swahili Literature written by Bertoncini Zúbková and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Olakunle George
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119058171
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book A Companion to African Literatures written by Olakunle George and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rediscover the diversity of modern African literatures with this authoritative resource edited by a leader in the field How have African literatures unfolded in their rich diversity in our modern era of decolonization, nationalisms, and extensive transnational movement of peoples? How have African writers engaged urgent questions regarding race, nation, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality? And how do African literary genres interrelate with traditional oral forms or audio-visual and digital media? A Companion to African Literatures addresses these issues and many more. Consisting of essays by distinguished scholars and emerging leaders in the field, this book offers rigorous, deeply engaging discussions of African literatures on the continent and in diaspora. It covers the four main geographical regions (East and Central Africa, North Africa, Southern Africa, and West Africa), presenting ample material to learn from and think with. A Companion To African Literatures is divided into five parts. The first four cover different regions of the continent, while the fifth part considers conceptual issues and newer directions of inquiry. Chapters focus on literatures in European languages officially used in Africa -- English, French, and Portuguese -- as well as homegrown African languages: Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Swahili, and Yoruba. With its lineup of lucid and authoritative analyses, readers will find in A Companion to African Literatures a distinctive, rewarding academic resource. Perfect for undergraduate and graduate students in literary studies programs with an African focus, A Companion to African Literatures will also earn a place in the libraries of teachers, researchers, and professors who wish to strengthen their background in the study of African literatures.
Author : Xavier Garnier
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1847010792
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book The Swahili Novel written by Xavier Garnier and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2013 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than fifty years a dynamic modern literature has been developing in the Kiswahili language. The political weight that Kiswahili carries as the emerging national and pan-national language of many East African countries places this literature, much of it in the form of novels, at the centre of heated literary debates on the social function of literature in the context of rapid global social change. Garnier provides new insights into the Swahili novel form with all its vibrancy and capacity for experimentation. Its obsession with social issues relates to larger, all-pervasive political debates running through East Africa: in its press, its streets, its public and private places. The novels both record and provoke these debates. Based on the study of more than 175 Swahili novels by almost 100 authors, Garnier brings to light a body of work much neglected by African literary critics, but which looks outwards to the wider world. Xavier Garnier teaches African Literature at the Universit Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle and is former director of the Centre d'Etudes des Nouveaux Espaces Litt raires, Universit Paris 13.
Author : Ali Behdad
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118917359
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (189 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Comparative Literature written by Ali Behdad and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Comparative Literature presents a collection of more than thirty original essays from established and emerging scholars, which explore the history, current state, and future of comparative literature. Features over thirty original essays from leading international contributors Provides a critical assessment of the status of literary and cross-cultural inquiry Addresses the history, current state, and future of comparative literature Chapters address such topics as the relationship between translation and transnationalism, literary theory and emerging media, the future of national literatures in an era of globalization, gender and cultural formation across time, East-West cultural encounters, postcolonial and diaspora studies, and other experimental approaches to literature and culture
Author : John M. Mugane
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0896804895
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (968 download)
Download or read book The Story of Swahili written by John M. Mugane and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swahili was once an obscure dialect of an East African Bantu language. Today more than one hundred million people use it: Swahili is to eastern and central Africa what English is to the world. From its embrace in the 1960s by the black freedom movement in the United States to its adoption in 2004 as the African Union’s official language, Swahili has become a truly international language. How this came about and why, of all African languages, it happened only to Swahili is the story that John M. Mugane sets out to explore. The remarkable adaptability of Swahili has allowed Africans and others to tailor the language to their needs, extending its influence far beyond its place of origin. Its symbolic as well as its practical power has evolved from its status as a language of contact among diverse cultures, even as it embodies the history of communities in eastern and central Africa and throughout the Indian Ocean world. The Story of Swahili calls for a reevaluation of the widespread assumption that cultural superiority, military conquest, and economic dominance determine a language’s prosperity. This sweeping history gives a vibrant, living language its due, highlighting its nimbleness from its beginnings to its place today in the fast-changing world of global communication.
Author : Rémi Armand Tchokothe
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643903936
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)
Download or read book Transgression in Swahili Narrative Fiction and its Reception written by Rémi Armand Tchokothe and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2014 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book remarkably analyses the development of recent Swahili prose narrative. The main thesis is that since the 90s, Swahili literature has developed to go beyond aspects that had hitherto conditioned literature in African languages (local, popular and didactic) and has opened itself to global, sophisticated and subversive perspectives. Remi Tchokothe uses the leitmotif of transgression as the unifying thread to render an account of this evolution of the Swahili narrative fiction towards the disruption of narrative linearity, an increase in intertextual references, an awareness of globalisation in political analysis and a shift to magical realism. The finishing touch to the analysis is a meticulously conducted reception survey which highlights editorial ambiguities that go with the transgressive turn." -- Xavier Garnier, U. Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 (Series: Contributions to Research on Africa / Beitrage zur Afrikaforschung - Vol. 56)
Author : Peter France
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0198183593
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (981 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation written by Peter France and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Guide offers both an essential reference work for students of English and comparative literature and a stimulating overview of literary translation in English."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Steven Fabian
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108492045
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Making Identity on the Swahili Coast written by Steven Fabian and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A re-examination of the historical development of urban identity and community along the Swahili Coast.
Author : Izabela Romańczuk
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 104013159X
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Swahili Novels of Tanzanian Women written by Izabela Romańczuk and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-09-11 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a rich and full analysis of female Swahili novelists from a feminist perspective, highlighting their important contributions to the living Swahili literary and intellectual tradition. Compared to the diverse and centuries-old oral literature, or religious-philosophical poetry tradition developing since at least the 17th century, the novel is a relatively young phenomenon in the rich body of Swahili literary output, emerging only in the last hundred years. Since then, academia has focused primarily on male novelists, largely disregarding important female writers such as Ndyanao Balisidya, Zainab Burhani, Martha Mvungi Mlangala, Zainab Mwanga, Lucy Nyasulu, and Zainab Alwi Baharoon. This book traces the evolution of women’s writing in Tanzania, highlighting emancipatory and feminist discourses, as well as intersectional themes of class, education, and urbanisation. The author demonstrates how concepts such as utu 'the essence of humanity', aibu 'shame', 'disgrace' and heshima 'honor', 'social respectability' are used in the novels to articulate the value systems and social norms in Swahili communities, including the gendered perceptions of women that they create. Grounded throughout in the historical and socio-political contexts of the authors it discusses, this book will be an important read for researchers of African literature and women’s studies.
Author : Wilfred Whiteley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003804853
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Swahili written by Wilfred Whiteley and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-20 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1969, this book examines the factors which at different historical periods led people to use one language (Swahili) rather than another, or within a given period, to use a particular language in one set of circumstances. The national language of Tanzania and much of East Africa, Swahili is unique among African languages in its verse literature, which dates back to the 18th Century and was written in the Arabic script. This book traces the remarkable expansion of Swahili, which was linked with the expansion of trace, missionary activities and the establishment of Colonial administrations and the development of education.
Author : Leo Loveday
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144381668X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Ways of Being in Literary and Cultural Spaces written by Leo Loveday and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In accordance with the notion that “identity” is absolutely central to ontological and discursive practices, this volume explores a multiplicity of “ways of being”, including the adoption of an ethnic position, the enactment of gender, the conception of childhood and artistic visions of urban life in addition to other pivotal modes of existence. Beyond discourses of identity featured in the first section of this work, “ways of performing” identity in literature are brought to light in the second half through studies into, for instance, the roles of enunciator and reader, the depiction of villainy and the portrayal of rebellious victimhood. Integrating research from Great Britain, Bulgaria, Iraq, Japan, Romania, Spain and Ukraine, this collection of fifteen chapters offers innovative and inspiring insights from a comparative stance into the complex dynamics and parameters which govern the construction of “identity” in cultural and literary space.
Author : Adrian Roscoe
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521290890
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Uhuru's Fire written by Adrian Roscoe and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1977-06-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1977, this is an eminently readable introduction to contemporary literature in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa. The author examines work in verse, prose and drama, and discusses vernacular language problems, the role of oral literature and tradition and the varied responses to the struggle for freedom and its achievement. He argues that African literature is achieving its own inner dynamic, revealing a rapid spread of influences from one side of the continent to the other and a decrease in influences from the Western world. Part of his argument is based on a discussion of authors not yet known outside East and Central Africa, but whose works shows signs of great promise and originality. Dr Roscoe has close personal knowledge of many of the authors he discusses, as he has worked in East and Central African universities throughout the period of the literary awakening he discusses.
Author : Clement M. Doke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351601555
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Bantu written by Clement M. Doke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-20 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1945, this volume represented the first to classify Bantu languages. This volume does not record all the dialects but makes reference to those in which some grammatical study has been done and classifies them according to mainly geographical zones. Owing to tribal migrations, individual members of a particular zone may be living among members of a different zone (as has been the case with the Ngoni, South-Eastern Zone, who are found among the Eastern Bantu), but the zone label is taken from the habitat of the majority.
Author : Svend Erik Larsen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027257965
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Landscapes of Realism written by Svend Erik Larsen and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few literary phenomena are as elusive and yet as persistent as realism. While it responds to the perennial impulse to use literature to reflect on experience, it also designates a specific set of literary and artistic practices that emerged in response to Western modernity. Landscapes of Realism is a two-volume collaborative interdisciplinary investigation of this vast territory, bringing together leading-edge new criticism on the realist paradigms that were first articulated in nineteenth-century Europe but have since gone on globally to transform the literary landscape. Tracing the manifold ways in which these paradigms are developed, discussed and contested across time, space, cultures and media, this second volume shows in its four core essays and twenty-four case studies four major pathways through the landscapes of realism: The psychological pathways focusing on emotion and memory, the referential pathways highlighting the role of materiality, the formal pathways demonstrating the dynamics of formal experiments, and the geographical pathways exploring the worlding of realism through the encounters between European and non-European languages from the nineteenth century to the present.This volume is part of a book set which can be ordered at a special discount:
Author : Anaïs Angelo
Publisher : Neofelis Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3958080839
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (58 download)
Download or read book African Thoughts on Colonial and Neo-Colonial Worlds written by Anaïs Angelo and published by Neofelis Verlag. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows the many facets of African engagements with the world. It starts from the premise that current global asymmetries ascribing Africa to a marginalized position are the effects of colonial and imperial pasts still lingering on. The decolonization process of the post-war structure which privileges the West in both political and economic terms. While new dependencies emerged, several old bonds were maintained and continue to influence African affairs quite strikingly. It is appropriate, then, to call these continued unequal relations between Africa and the West frankly 'neo-colonial'. This designation applies all the more as the post-colonial states of Africa inherited a complex legacy of foreign rule – colonial frontiers, colonial languages, colonial infrastructure and authoritarian institutions, as well as the social intricacies and imbalances so characteristic of the 'colonial situation'. The contributions to this volume look at various aspects of these complex processes from intellectual history perspectives. The topics dealt with are manifold. Contributions deliberately attack key themes, ideas and discourses of an intellectual history of Africa ('state', 'modernity', 'development', 'dependency', 'art', etc.), and introduce important engaged public intellectuals from Africa and the African diaspora. What is Africa, and how is she related to the rest of the world? How can she overcome her internal problems and her external dependencies? – These are perennial questions critically tackled by Africans throughout the 20th century. Dealing with various cases looked at from a variety of perspectives, the contributions to this book offer original insights into the intellectual history of Africa.
Author : Ernest N. Emenyonu
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1847013465
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Alt 41 written by Ernest N. Emenyonu and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2023-12-19 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interrogates and explores African literature in African languages today, and the continuing interfaces between works in indigenous languages and those written in European languages or languages of colonizers. Sixty years after the Conference of African Writers of English Expression at Makerere University, the dominance in the global canon of African literatures written in European languages over those in indigenous languages continues to be an issue. This volume of ALT re-examines this central question of African literatures to ask, 'What is the state of African literatures in African languages today?' Contributors discuss the translation of Gurnah's novel Paradise to Swahili, and Osemwegie's Ọrọ Epic to English, and Wolof wrestlers' panegyrics. They analyse Edo eco-critical poetry, and the poetics of Igbo mask poetry, and morality in early prose fiction in indigenous Nigerian languages. Other essays contribute a semiotic analysis of Duruaku's A Matter of Identity, and the decolonization of trauma in Uwem Akpan's Say You're One of Them. Overall, the volume paints a complex image of African cultural production in indigenous languages, especially in the ways Africa's oral performance traditions remain resilient in the face of a seemingly undiminished presence of non-African language literary traditions.
