Research Catalog

Title

Swahili beyond the boundaries : literature, language, and identity / Alamin Mazrui.

Author

Mazrui, Alamin M.

Publication

Athens : Ohio University Press, c2007.

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Description

x, 206 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"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. In this original work, Alamin Mazrui charts and analyzes the momentous changes that have generated much theoretical debate as Swahili literature continues to undergo transformation."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Ohio University research in international studies. Africa series ; no. 85

Uniform Title

Research in international studies. Africa series no. 85.

Subject

• Literature and society > Africa, East
• Swahili literature > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-194) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : hybridity reconfigured -- The intercultural heritage of Swahili literature -- Aesthetics of Swahili verse: between the "old" and the "new" -- Religion and the boundaries of Swahili literature -- Translation and the (re)configuration of the Swahili literary space -- Conclusion.

ISBN

• 9780896802520 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0896802523 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2006036626

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library