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Emerging Trends in Eastern African Literatures and Cultures

BuchKartoniert, Paperback
356 Seiten
Englisch
Galda Verlagerschienen am02.12.2020
This book volume engages the emergent ways and exercises of world-making in eastern African literatures and cultures. It also includes how the world comes to eastern Africa as well as how eastern Africa speaks to the world. Writers within the region have come up with novel commentaries on diverse social issues. Artists and other users have invented new forms of expression through digitalization. The structure and content of this literature and cultural conversations, in line with modernity, has exhibited a fluidity that calls for the critical appraisal carried out in this book.Therefore, this book volume centralises the emergence of new patterns of engagement in the literatures and cultures of the region. Taking cue from the cultural transformations, technological advancements and political influences, the volume raises questions on politics, conflict and war, and the evolving genres and canon. The book crosses language barriers beyond English and includes critical attention to texts written in the Swahili and French languages. The chapters aim to give a broad overview of the writings and cultural expressions in the eastern African region, including novels, films, short stories, theatre, poetry, oral, and digital performances.TABLE OF CONTENTSIntroduction: An Overview of Trends in Eastern African Literatures and CulturesOduor OburaPart One: The Evolving Literary CanonLiterary Disruptions of the Ugandan Canon in Selected Ugandan Short StoriesEdgar NabutanyiA Discipline under Siege: Interrogating the Place of Literature in English in the Secondary School Curriculum in TanzaniaObala MusumbaCartographies of Killing: Transnational Drones in Eye in the SkyJana FedtkePerforming in the Cyber Space: The Online Mchongoano BattlesKimingichi WabendeMobile Phones in the Public Space: Communication as Contextual Cultural Practice in KenyaJames OgonePart Two: Conflict, Politics, and WarNarrating Violence in Burundian Genocide and Civil War Literature: Pacifique Irankunda's "Playing at Violence"Jodi MikalachkiViolence and the Multivocality of Silence in Roland Rugero's Novels Giuseppe Sofo Conflicts in Memories, History and National Identity in Burundian LiteraturePierre BoizetteThe Aporia in Eastern African War Narratives as Reflected in Uwem Akpan's "My Parents' Bedroom" and Misago Aloys' La Descente aux enfersMarie-Thérèse ToyiEthiopian Dissident Fiction: Countering Despotism in Hama Tuma's Short StoriesGeorge Otieno OdhiamboAgony on Stage: The Intrigues of Building Houses in The Rubble Rouser, performed at the 58th Edition of the Kenya Schools and Colleges Drama Festival (KSCDF)Pepetual Mforbe ChiangongPart Three: Recent Interventions in Swahili WritingUWARIDI Initiative: The Innovative Transformation of a Self-help Project by Tanzanian Novelists into a Powerful Literary SpaceUta Reuster-JahnSwahili Poetry in the New Millennium: Established and Emerging TrendsFlavia Aiello, Roberto Gaudioso and Emiliano MinerbaLinking the Centuries: The 'Big Four' of Kenyan Swahili WritingMikhail D. Gromovmehr
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KlappentextThis book volume engages the emergent ways and exercises of world-making in eastern African literatures and cultures. It also includes how the world comes to eastern Africa as well as how eastern Africa speaks to the world. Writers within the region have come up with novel commentaries on diverse social issues. Artists and other users have invented new forms of expression through digitalization. The structure and content of this literature and cultural conversations, in line with modernity, has exhibited a fluidity that calls for the critical appraisal carried out in this book.Therefore, this book volume centralises the emergence of new patterns of engagement in the literatures and cultures of the region. Taking cue from the cultural transformations, technological advancements and political influences, the volume raises questions on politics, conflict and war, and the evolving genres and canon. The book crosses language barriers beyond English and includes critical attention to texts written in the Swahili and French languages. The chapters aim to give a broad overview of the writings and cultural expressions in the eastern African region, including novels, films, short stories, theatre, poetry, oral, and digital performances.TABLE OF CONTENTSIntroduction: An Overview of Trends in Eastern African Literatures and CulturesOduor OburaPart One: The Evolving Literary CanonLiterary Disruptions of the Ugandan Canon in Selected Ugandan Short StoriesEdgar NabutanyiA Discipline under Siege: Interrogating the Place of Literature in English in the Secondary School Curriculum in TanzaniaObala MusumbaCartographies of Killing: Transnational Drones in Eye in the SkyJana FedtkePerforming in the Cyber Space: The Online Mchongoano BattlesKimingichi WabendeMobile Phones in the Public Space: Communication as Contextual Cultural Practice in KenyaJames OgonePart Two: Conflict, Politics, and WarNarrating Violence in Burundian Genocide and Civil War Literature: Pacifique Irankunda's "Playing at Violence"Jodi MikalachkiViolence and the Multivocality of Silence in Roland Rugero's Novels Giuseppe Sofo Conflicts in Memories, History and National Identity in Burundian LiteraturePierre BoizetteThe Aporia in Eastern African War Narratives as Reflected in Uwem Akpan's "My Parents' Bedroom" and Misago Aloys' La Descente aux enfersMarie-Thérèse ToyiEthiopian Dissident Fiction: Countering Despotism in Hama Tuma's Short StoriesGeorge Otieno OdhiamboAgony on Stage: The Intrigues of Building Houses in The Rubble Rouser, performed at the 58th Edition of the Kenya Schools and Colleges Drama Festival (KSCDF)Pepetual Mforbe ChiangongPart Three: Recent Interventions in Swahili WritingUWARIDI Initiative: The Innovative Transformation of a Self-help Project by Tanzanian Novelists into a Powerful Literary SpaceUta Reuster-JahnSwahili Poetry in the New Millennium: Established and Emerging TrendsFlavia Aiello, Roberto Gaudioso and Emiliano MinerbaLinking the Centuries: The 'Big Four' of Kenyan Swahili WritingMikhail D. Gromov
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ISBN/GTIN978-3-96203-140-4
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2020
Erscheinungsdatum02.12.2020
Seiten356 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht592 g
Artikel-Nr.16301186

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Susanne Gehrmann, PhD, is Professor of African literatures and cultures at Humboldt University, Berlin. She holds an MA in Comparative Literature from Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris 3), an MA in Romance literature from the University of Bochum and a PhD from the University of Bayreuth. Her main research areas are francophone West- and Central African literatures, autobiography studies and intermediality. She has co-edited "The Ubiquitous Figure of the Child Soldier. Interviews with African Writers, Academics and Cultural Activists followed by a Comprehensive Bibliography" (2019) and "Créativité intermédiatique au Togo et dans la diaspora togolaise" (2015).
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