Dunia Yao - Utopia/Dystopia in Swahili fiction
Subtitle: in honour of Said A.M. Khamis
By: edited by Clarissa Vierke & Katharina Greven
Contributors: Mohamed, Said Ahmed, 1947- honouree
Series: Verbal art and documentary literature in African languages = Wortkunst und Dokumentartexte in afrikanischen Sprachen -- volume 36; Wortkunst und Dokumentartexte in afrikanischen Sprachen -- Bd. 36.
Publisher: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Köln
Language: eng; swa
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9783896457363
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Swahili literature; Congresses; History and criticism; Swahili fiction; Themes, motives; Appreciation; Experimental fiction
Notes: Festschrift for Said Ahmen Mohamed.

Proceedings from a colloquium held May 2012.

Includes bibliographical references.

Nine contributions in English, 2 in Swahili.
Table of contents: title: Dunia Yao. Critical visions of the future in Swahili fiction / Clarissa Vierke & Katharina Greven; title: Dunia Yake. An appraisal of Said Ahmed Mohamed's novels / Lutz Diegner; title: "Local achievement" or "external influence"? Intertextuality and political satire in the "new" Swahili novel in Kenya / Mikhail D. Gromov; title: The "unhomely" city : a literary figuration in Swahili dystopian literature / Clarissa Vierke; title: Postmodernism in Swahili fiction and drama / Elena Bertoncini; title: From mimesis to mize : philosophical implications of departures from literary realism / Alen Rettová; title: Magical realism and utopian/dystopian impulses in Said Ahmed Mohamed's Babu Alipofufuka / Peter Simatei; title: Fasihi ya Kiswahili na Mabadiliko ya Jamii za Afrika ya Mashariki : Nukta Chache / Abdilatif Abdalla; title: Taswira za zukosoaji na "Utopia" katika Ushairi wa Said Ahmed Mohamed / Geoffrey Kitula King'ei; title: Generational conflicts in Dunia Yao : utopia versus dystopia / Magdaline N. Wafula; title: Unravelling the riddle of "their world" and "our world" in Said A. Mohamed's Dunia Yao / Ken Walibora Waliaula.