The Swahili novel : challenging the idea of 'minor literature' /

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 o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Garnier, Xavier
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, New York : Boydell & Brewer, [2013]
Temas:
Swahili fiction > History and criticism.
Swahili fiction.
Roman swahili > Histoire et critique.
Roman swahili.
LITERARY CRITICISM > African.
Swahili
Roman
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Narrating values: describing a world
  • Shaaban Robert: the optimism of writing
  • The crisis of the bildungsroman
  • Euphrase Kezilahabi: an initiatory realism
  • The political novel
  • Mohamed Suleiman Mohamed: narrating a dual reality
  • The criminals & the corrupted
  • Investigations & enigmas
  • Said Ahmed Mohamed: the dark side of images.

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