Narrative in Swahili PDF Download

Author: Joan Maw
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135338108
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author: Joan Maw
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780728602007
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author: Rémi Armand Tchokothe
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643903936
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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"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: J. C. Russell
Publisher:
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
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Author: Deborah D. Foster
Publisher:
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Category : Folk literature, Swahili
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Author: Nathan Glazer
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Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Author: Patricia Caplan
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415137232
Category : Minazini (Tanzania)
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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By utilising a mixture of styles - narrative and life history, ethnographic observation and the diary kept by Mohammed, a Swahili peasant, this book grapples with issues raised by personal narratives, authorial authority and reflexivity.

Author: Deborah Dene Foster
Publisher:
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Category : Folk literature
Languages : en
Pages : 319

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Author: Elena Zúbková Bertoncini
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Category : Swahili fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 54

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Author: John M. Mugane
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0896804895
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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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.