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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.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

• Full title: Swahili Novel
• Subtitle: Challenging the Idea of 'Minor Literature'
• Author: Xavier Garnier
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 208
• EAN: 9781847010797
• ISBN: 1847010792
• ID: 01357177
• Publisher: James Currey
• Weight: 458 g
• Dimensions: 241 × 168 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. October 2013

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