Visions of the future in the ‘new’ Swahili novel: Hope in desperation?

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https://doi.org/10.4314/tvl.v51i2.4

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Apocalyptic vision, East African writing, the ‘new’ novel, Swahili literature

Résumé

The ‘new’ novel in Swahili, the most significant phenomenon in Swahili literature in the recent decades, has dealt with the questions of the future of the African continent and the world as one of its central themes. Kenyan and Tanzanian authors, whose novels are analysed in the article, present in their works a rather gloomy, apocalyptic-type visions of the future of humanity - but at the same time, leave the readers with hope that the catastrophic situations described in their books may be prevented or solved by joint effort of all the people of Africa joined into one nation.

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Biographie de l'auteur

  • Mikhail Gromov, United States International University, Nairobi, Kenya

    Mikhail D. Gromov is an Assistant Professor of Literature at the United States International University in Nairobi. He researches on literatures of Eastern and Southern Africa in English and indigenous languages, Swahili literature, comparative literature.

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Publiée

2014-09-01

Numéro

Vol. 51 No 2 (2014)

Rubrique

Research articles

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(c) Copyright Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 2014

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Gromov, M. (2014). Visions of the future in the ‘new’ Swahili novel: Hope in desperation?. Tydskrif Vir Letterkunde, 51(2), 40-51. https://doi.org/10.4314/tvl.v51i2.4