The Swahili Novel: Challenging the Idea of 'Minor Literature' (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781847010797)

For more than fifty years a dynamic modern literature has been developing in the Kiswahili language. The political weight that Kiswahili carries as the emerging national and pan-national language of many East African countries places this literature, much of it in the form of novels, at the centre of heated literary debates on the social function of literature in the context of rapid global social change. This obsession with social issues relates to larger, all-pervasive political debates running through East Africa: in its press, its streets, its public and private places. The novels both record and provoke these debates.

Author: Xavier Garnier
ISBN-10: 1847010792
ISBN-13: 9781847010797
Publisher: James Currey
Language: English
Published: 10/17/2013
Pages: 201
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2015 pg. 799