Swahili beyond the Boundaries

Literature, Language, and Identity

Autor: Alamin M. Mazrui

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: Ohio University Press

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Africa is a marriage of cultures: African and Asian, Islamic and Euro-Christian. Nowhere is this fus...

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Autor

Alamin M. Mazrui

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

2007

strony

216

EAN

9780896802520

ISBN

0896802523

Enbook ID

04947707

Wydawca

Ohio University Press

Waga

327

Wymiary

140 x 216 x 13

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Africa is a marriage of cultures: African and Asian, Islamic and Euro-Christian. Nowhere is this fusion more evident than in the formation of Swahili, Eastern Africa's lingua franca, and its cultures. "Swahili beyond the Boundaries: Literature, Language, and Identity" addresses the moving frontiers of Swahili literature under the impetus of new waves of globalization in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. These momentous changes have generated much theoretical debate on several literary fronts, as Swahili literature continues to undergo transformation in the mill of human creativity. Swahili literature is a hybrid that is being reconfigured by a conjuncture of global and local forces. As the interweaving of elements of the colonizer and the colonized, this hybrid formation provides a representation of cultural difference that is said to constitute a "third space," blurring existing boundaries and calling into question established identitarian categorizations. This cultural dialectic is clearly evident in the Swahili literary experience as it has evolved in the crucible of the politics of African cultural production. However, "Swahili beyond the Boundaries" demonstrates that, from the point of view of Swahili literature, while hybridity evokes endless openness on questions of home and identity, it can simultaneously put closure on specific forms of subjectivity. In the process of this contestation, a new synthesis may be emerging that is poised to subject Swahili literature to new kinds of challenges in the politics of identity, compounded by the dynamics and counterdynamics of post - Cold War globalization.

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