Swahili Beyond the Boundaries - Literature, Language, and Identity

Klappentext 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. "Mazrui challenges the longstanding claim of Swahili identity as dependent on ethnicity and historical specificity; instead, he shows the hybrid, multicultural, and transnational nature of Swahili identity."-- "African Studies Review" Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Alamin Mazrui, Alamin M. Mazrui
• Publisher: University of ohio press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.04.2007
• EAN: 9780896802520
• ISBN: 978-0-89680-252-0
• No. of pages: 206
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Ohio University Research in In; Ohio RIS Africa Series; Ohio RIS Africa Series; Research in International Studies, Africa Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies