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Eastern African Literatures
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This volume offers an overview of contemporary Eastern African writing in English since the mid-twentieth century. It takes a fresh look at what has been an under-represented regional literary tradition within what continues to be an under-represented continental literary tradition. In particular, it broadens the scope of such an overview, complementing the extant monographs on well-known Eastern African writers such as Ng¿g¿ to include a host of more recent, less-publicizednovelists, dramatists, and poets. It extends the geographical range of existing studies from the familiar triad of Kenyan, Ugandan, and Tanzanian traditions of writing in English, to include the lesser-known Somali, Ethiopian, or Sudanese, or Mauritian or Madagascan traditions.
Rather than simply addressing national traditions or broad thematic bundles, the volume treats works as literatures of a region: that is, as literatures of place and space. Eastern African Literatures stresses the formative role of space, place and geography in fashioning the fabric of social interaction, whether individual or collective, in generating history, in moulding identities, and as a consequence in defining the shape of the future. The 'spatial' perspectives allow the 'proximate'rather than the 'distant' influence of literary art to come into view. Proximate modes of literary communication, arising out of residual but vibrant traditions of oral communication, blend with contemporary media to produce hybrid genres of proximity specific to Eastern African literary production. Inthis way, the book also makes a contribution to the ongoing theorization of literary and cultural innovation in the cultures of the Global South.
Product details
Number of Pages:
246
Release Date:
2018-08-21
Publication Date:
2017-10-12
Publisher:
Oxford University Press (UK)
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0198745729
ISBN13:
9780198745723
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Weight:
512 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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