{"product_id":"the-swahili-novel-xavier-garnier-9781847010797","title":"The Swahili Novel: Challenging the Idea of 'Minor Literature'","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Xavier Garnier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1847010792\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781847010797\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e James Currey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/17\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 201\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2015 pg. 799","brand":"Xavier Garnier","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44074934206719,"sku":"9781847010797","price":105.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_df75f96f-4e48-44dd-8f4d-a0fbd45e9427.jpg?v=1685456631","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-swahili-novel-xavier-garnier-9781847010797","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}