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Title
Intertextuality in the contemporary Swahili novel: Euphrase Kezilahabi's Nagona and William E. Mkufya's Ziraili na Zirani |
Full text
http://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A11512; http://ul.qucosa.de/api/qucosa%3A11512/attachment/ATT-0/ |
Date
2012 |
Author(s)
Diegner, Lutz |
Contributor(s)
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Universität Mainz |
Abstract
This paper deals with intertextuality in two contemporary Swahili novels: Euphrase Kezilahabi's Nagona (1987/1990) and William E. Mkufya's Ziraili na Zirani (1999). It is a first approach to intertextual relations between these two novels. My aim is to show how the contemporary Swahili novel has further opened up its scope to universal questions of mankind. Nagona describes the journey of an unnamed protagonist through strangely abandoned landscapes and his surrealistic experience. It is written in a puzzling style between realism and hallucination. The second work, Ziraili na Zirani, is a novel written in the style of an epic. Dwelling on its literary role models, which are Dante's Divina Commedia (1312-1321) and Milton's Paradise Lost (1658-1665), it describes the battle over religion. It takes the reader on a fantastic journey between heaven, paradise and hell, with several excursions to the historical and contemporary malices and catastrophes on earth. |
Subject(s)
info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/496; ddc:496; Swahili; Intertextualität; Außereuropäische Literatur; Swahili, Intertextualität, William E. Mkufya, Ziraili na Zirani, Euphrase Kezilahabi, Nagona, Afrikanische Literatur; Swahili, intertextuality, William E. Mkufya, Ziraili na Zirani, Euphrase Kezilahabi, Nagona, African literature |
Language
eng |
Relation
urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-94062; qucosa:11593 |
Type of publication
doc-type:article; info:eu-repo/semantics/article; doc-type:Text |
Source
Swahili Forum 12 (2005), S. 25-35 |
Rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
Identifier
urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-91226 |
Repository
Dresden - Hochschulschriftenserver
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