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Habari YA English? What about Kiswahili?: East Africa as a Literary and Linguistic Contact Zone

Habari YA English? What about Kiswahili?: East Africa as a Literary and Linguistic Contact Zone

Diegner, Lutz
Schulze-Engler, Frank

Hardcover

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 9004292268
ISBN13: 9789004292260
Publisher: Brill
Published: Apr 30 2015
Pages: 274
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
This wide-ranging collection deals with the dynamics of current developments in literature, language, and culture in Kenya and Tanzania. It testifies to a spirited exchange of ideas between writers and academics and promotes transdisciplinary dialogue among several academic fields - anglophone and Swahili studies, literary studies and linguistics, East African and German academic discourse, Kenyan and Tanzanian perspectives. The contributions create a 'contact zone' of their own that will generate productive impulses for transdisciplinary research and allow readers to gain new insights into trajectories of Swahili and anglophone writing in East Africa.
Topics covered include literary language choice and translation, popular fiction and codeswitching, Swahili hip-hop texts, HIV/AIDS discourse, the advance of 'Sheng' and 'Engsh' in literary-linguistic space, contemporary women's literature in Kenya, and special studies of Abdulrazak Gurnah and David G. Maillu.

CONTRIBUTORS
MIKHAIL D. GROMOV - ABDULRAZAK GURNAH - SISSY HELFF - LILLIAN KAVITI - EUPHRASE KEZILAHABI - SAID A.M. KHAMIS - ALDIN K. MUTEMBEI - YVONNE ADHIAMBO OWUOR - UTA REUSTER-JAHN - ALINA N. RINKANYA - GABRIEL RUHUMBIKA - CLARISSA VIERKE - KYALLO WADI WAMITILA

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