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Swahili beyond the Boundaries: Literature, Language, and Identity: 85 (Research in International Studies, Africa Series) - Softcover
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"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 "Erudite and lucidly written, Swahili Beyond the Boundaries is no doubt an outstanding contribution to the study of African literatures and languages in general, and Swahili studies in particular." -- Canadian Journal of African Studies "Mazrui provides a fascinating, clear and insightful account of the development of Swahili literature, and the continually shifting hybridity that is such an essential component of its boundaries." -- African Studies Quarterly "Confidently traversing a vast territory and deftly combining sociolinguistics with postcolonial theory.... Highly recommended." -- Choice
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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. Swahili literature is a hybrid that is being reconfigured by a conjuncture of global and local forces. As the interweaving of elements of the colonizer and the colonized, this hybrid formation provides a representation of cultural difference that is said to constitute a \u201cthird space,\u201d blurring existing boundaries and calling into question established identitarian categorizations. This cultural dialectic is clearly evident in the Swahili literary experience as it has evolved in the crucible of the politics of African cultural production. However, Swahili Beyond the Boundaries demonstrates that, from the point of view of Swahili literature, while hybridity evokes endless openness on questions of home and identity, it can simultaneously put closure on specific forms of subjectivity. In the process of this contestation, a new synthesis may be emerging that is poised to subject Swahili literature to new kinds of challenges in the politics of identity, compounded by the dynamics and counterdynamics of post-Cold War globalization.
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- VerlagOhio University Press
- Erscheinungsdatum2007
- ISBN 10 0896802523
- ISBN 13 9780896802520
- EinbandTapa blanda
- Anzahl der Seiten216
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