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Journal articles on the topic "East African fiction"

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Wangila, Makhakha Joseph. "Nativization of Fear and Anxiety as Identity in Selected Fiction of East African Asians." International Journal of Scientific Research and Management 10, no. 10 (October 27, 2022): 1253–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.18535/ijsrm/v10i10.sh03.

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This paper explores the concept of fear and anxiety in the identity formation process among East African Asians as captured in their selected works of fiction. It analyses identity and belonging by examining how emotions of fear and anxiety are presented in the selected texts through characterization and imagery. Using Bahadur Tejani's Day After Tomorrow , Peter Nazareth's In a Brown Mantle, M.G Vassanji's The In-between World of Vikram Lall and Imam Verji's Who will Catch Us as We Fall? the paper analyzes the changing trends and images of fear and anxiety among East African Asians, that make their interaction with the native Africans almost impossible. This paper is therefore geared towards exploring how the complexity of contemporary race relations between the Asians of East Africa and the native African communities, which is driven by fear and anxiety, find expression through literary narratives. In this paper I employ psychoanalytic theory in engaging with the texts owing to the emotional issues of fear and anxiety that makes it focus on the fragmented image of the Asian world and explore the alienated individual consciousness such as the interstitial position that the East African Asians find themselves in. I conclude that fear and anxiety play a role in the process of identity formation among East African Asians in their quest for belonging in the region.

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Kopf, Martina. "Encountering development in East African fiction." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 54, no. 3 (May 25, 2017): 334–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989417707801.

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In this article I address how East African writers have responded to and conceptualized the encounter with development in works of fiction. The article combines two lines of enquiry: first, a historical perspective on “development” as a history of changing and conflicting meanings and practices in planning and controlling social and economic change, and, second, a narrative studies perspective on fiction as a source of knowledge in social and political research. The article presents an analysis of two novels and a short story from Uganda and Kenya: Akiki Nyabongo’s The Story of an African Chief (1935), Meja Mwangi’s Going Down River Road (1976), and Binyavanga Wainaina’s Discovering Home (2003). The texts are from three different historical periods from the colonial past to the present. Bringing them into dialogue with institutional discourses relevant to their respective periods, I argue that these works of fiction open up a unique understanding of key issues and problems in development thinking and planning. Furthermore, my analysis sheds a different light on critical debates that perceive the “development encounter” as a story of the “West versus the rest”. Instead, this essay links recent trends in writing to more entangled histories of development.

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Coates, Oliver. "New Perspectives on West Africa and World War Two." Journal of African Military History 4, no. 1-2 (October 26, 2020): 5–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24680966-00401007.

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Abstract Focusing on Anglophone West Africa, particularly Nigeria and the Gold Coast (Ghana), this article analyses the historiography of World War Two, examining recruitment, civil defence, intelligence gathering, combat, demobilisation, and the predicament of ex-servicemen. It argues that we must avoid an overly homogeneous notion of African participation in the war, and that we should instead attempt to distinguish between combatants and non-combatants, as well as differentiating in terms of geography and education, all variables that made a significant difference to wartime labour conditions and post-war prospects. It will show how the existing historiography facilitates an appreciation of the role of West Africans in distinct theatres of combat, and examine the role of such sources as African war memoirs, journalism and photography in developing our understanding of Africans in East Africa, South and South-East Asia, and the Middle East. More generally, it will demonstrate how recent scholarship has further complicated our comprehension of the conflict, opening new fields of study such as the interaction of gender and warfare, the role of religion in colonial armed forces, and the transnational experiences of West Africans during the war. The article concludes with a discussion of the historical memory of the war in contemporary West African fiction and documentary film.

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Leman, Peter. "Law and Transnational Utopias in East African Fiction." Interventions 16, no. 6 (July 11, 2014): 818–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369801x.2014.936957.

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Ojwang, D. "Exile and Estrangement in East African Indian Fiction." Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 32, no. 3 (January 1, 2012): 523–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-1891543.

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Ohia, Ben-Fred. "Revolutionist’s View of African Fiction as a Protest Literature: Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s A Grain of Wheat." International Journal of Literature, Language and Linguistics 7, no. 1 (January 26, 2024): 49–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.52589/ijlll-fwhtaqik.

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Protest in African literature developed out of the misrule, marginalisation, exploitation, deprivation, forced labour, slavery, and subjugation perpetrated by inept, colonialist and neo-colonialist governments in Africa. In South Africa, it is a protest against apartheid;in East Africa, it is a protest against colonial domination of the land; and in West Africa, the protest is centred on the marginalisation and subjugation of the natives by the British colonialists. Aside from these, there is a general protest that spreads the entire continent against blacks’ inhumanity to fellow blacks at the corridor of power – the neocolonialist forces. Hence, there is the African struggle for decolonisation in African novels as evidenced in A Grain of Wheat. Therefore, this paper explores the elements that constitute protest in the novel. In its findings, it is discovered that characteristics such as environment, socio-political, religious and cultural situations prevalent in Africa are the factors that necessitated protest in the novel and African literature generally. This paper concludes that the protest in A Grain of Wheat is a struggle for decolonisation of an African Nation – Kenya and by extension the African continent. The paper recommends the sustenance of the commitment (which has made African fiction a protest literature) of African writers towards liberating African nations from the shackles of neo-colonialism in the 21st century.

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Wakota, John. "Tanzanian Anglophone Fiction: A Survey." Utafiti 12, no. 1-2 (March 18, 2017): 51–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26836408-0120102004.

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Tanzanian Anglophone fiction is extant and bustling. The invisibility of Tanzanian fiction in English is not due to the country’s inability to produce good- quality Anglophone novels but is related to the challenge in accessing the texts both within and outside Tanzania. Studies about East African fiction tend to ignore the contribution of Tanzanian Anglophone writers in the region. In Tanzania people know more about other canonical African novelists than their very own Anglophone writers. This article explores the emergence and development of Tanzanian Anglophone fiction, paying particular attention to the emergence of Tanzanian Anglophone literary canons and how these canons have inspired and continue to inspire the production of Tanzanian fiction. Starting with the novels produced by the inaugural Tanzanian Anglophone writers in the sixties, and continuing with the most recent works, the paper examines the interface between Swahili and English, translation and self-translation, diasporic writers, universities’ and researchers’ contributions to the definition of the canon and to the visibility of the fiction in general.

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Terblanche, Lize. "The language of stories: Modelling East African fiction and oral narratives." Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 34, no. 1 (January 30, 2016): 27–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/16073614.2015.1131991.

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Steiner, Tina. "NAVIGATING MULTILINGUALLY: THE CHRONOTOPE OF THE SHIP IN CONTEMPORARY EAST AFRICAN FICTION." English Studies in Africa 51, no. 2 (January 2008): 49–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00138390809487854.

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Munos, Delphine. "Afrasian Entanglements and Generic Ambiguities in Sultan Somjee’s Bead Bai." Matatu 52, no. 1 (November 22, 2021): 188–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-05201012.

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Abstract This article looks at Sultan Somjee’s Bead Bai (2012) which focuses on Sakina, a member of the Satpanth Ismaili community living in mid-twentieth century Kenya. Based on nine years of research and interviews with Khoja women who now reside in Western Europe and North America, Bead Bai is generally described as a “historical novel” or an “ethnographic fiction,” yet it also can be thought of as pertaining to the genre of what Brett Smith et al. (2015) call “ethnographic creative nonfiction.” I discuss the ways in which the ‘genre-bending’ aspects of Bead Bai participate in retracing the little-known history of Afrasian entanglements for Asian African women who sorted out, arranged and looked after ethnic beads during colonial times in East Africa. More specifically, I will suggest that, by toying with the boundary between fiction and ethnography, Somjee opens new gendered avenues for reinserting the category of the imaginary at the heart of Afrasian entanglements.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "East African fiction"

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Mirmotahari, Emad. "Islam and the Eastern African novel revisiting nation, diaspora, modernity /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1666396541&sid=12&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Mok, Olivia Wai Han. "Martial arts fiction translational migrations east and west /." Thesis, Online version, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.287060.

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Lavery, Charne. "Writing the Indian Ocean in selected fiction by Joseph Conrad, Amitav Ghosh, Abdulrazak Gurnah and Lindsey Collen." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:bc0865da-1b17-47c6-8bb8-46a4fe0962bc.

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Tracked and inscribed across the centuries by traders, pilgrims and imperial competitors, the Indian Ocean is written into literature in English by Joseph Conrad, and later by selected novelists from the region. As this thesis suggests, the Indian Ocean is imagined as a space of littoral interconnections, nomadic cosmopolitanisms, ancient networks of trade and contemporary networks of cooperation and crime. This thesis considers selected fiction written in English from or about the Indian Ocean—from the particular culture around its shores, and about the interconnections among its port cities. It focuses on Conrad, alongside Amitav Ghosh, Abdulrazak Gurnah and Lindsey Collen, whose work in many ways captures the geographical scope of the Indian Ocean: India, East Africa and a mid-point, Mauritius. Conrad’s work is examined as a foundational text for writing of the space, while the later writers, in turn, proleptically suggest a rereading of Conrad’s oeuvre through an oceanic lens. Alongside their diverse interests and emphases, the authors considered in this thesis write the Indian Ocean as a space in and through which to represent and interrogate historical gaps, the ethics and aesthetics of heterogeneity, and alternative geographies. The Indian Ocean allows the authors to write with empire at a distance, to subvert Eurocentric narratives and to explore the space as paradigmatic of widely connected human relations. In turn, they provide a longer imaginative history and an alternative cognitive map to imposed imperial and national boundaries. The fiction in this way brings the Indian Ocean into being, not only its borders and networks, but also its vivid, sensuous, storied world. The authors considered invoke and evoke the Indian Ocean as a representational space—producing imaginative depth that feeds into and shapes wider cultural, including historical, figurations.

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Ajulu-Okungu, Anne. "Diaspora and displacement in the fiction of Abdulrazak Gurnah." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/2108.

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Student Number : 0515393R - MA research report - School of Literature and Language Studies - Faculty of Humanities
This study examines the effects of diaspora and displacement in characters as presented in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise, Admiring Silence and By the Sea. It looks at the role played by these effects in the construction of ideas of home and identity in the characters. Displacement is studied here against a backdrop of a long history of movements brought about by trading activities, exile and voluntary migrations. The texts are set in the east African coastal region, the islands and in Western countries such as England. The study relies on theories of postcolonialism and diaspora for its reading. The introduction places Gurnah’s work within the postcolonial archive by looking at his stance against the existing postcolonial discourses. It is also of importance to consider Gurnah’s biography and attempt to relate this to the view he takes as he narrates this geographical space in a postcolonial era. Chapter two looks at ideas of home as posited by different theorists in relation to the displaced and scattered characters he presents in these texts. Chapter three is concerned with how characters construct their identities against the ideas of ‘otherness’. In this chapter, I argue that Gurnah’s ideas of ‘otherness’ operate outside the (post)colonial idea of the same where the other is defined purely by difference in race. In chapter four I examine the significance of the preponderance of violence in the families presented by Gurnah. I investigate the connection between this perpetration of violence in the family and the idea of an elusive ‘paradise’ which runs through all Gurnah’s texts. The conclusion summarizes my major findings about Gurnah’s presentation of diaspora and displacement in the East African coast and the islands, and how he uses different structures like the home, self and the family to do this.

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El-Nagar, Hassan Abdel Razig. "The theme of encounter between East and West a study of six novels from Africa and the Middle East /." 1992. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/27555321.html.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1992.
Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 301-307).

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Sakota-Kokot, Tanja. "My war, your war: understanding conflict in Africa and the Middle East through fiction film: Hotel Rwanda and The Kingdom." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/7727.

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ABSTRACT This research will focus on how we understand conflict through fiction film. The thesis will analyse the two case studies Hotel Rwanda, Terry George, (2004) and The Kingdom, (Peter Berg, 2007), by focusing on three areas of study, namely, globalisation, fictional narratives, and how we remember conflict. The discussion begins with globalisation with reference to narrative content and the economic and distributive authority of Hollywood. This will be linked to film as a commodity and how popular culture (through fiction film) intersects with the ‘real’, historical world and promotes ideological perceptions of the events. Through an analysis of the narrative structure, this research shall investigate how each narrative creates ‘preferred’ readings around ethnic groups and how it assumes a truthful depiction of its referents. The discussion shall focus on how the Classic Hollywood narrative, voice and rhetoric emerge within the two films. The investigation will also examine how the films are located within memory of conflict and how they create ‘othering’ through their representation and ‘voice’. This message provides a framework within the global environment. The research will show that although the films are fictional, their global message is very much the same as to what is emerging within global media regarding mainstream as opposed to the marginalised ‘other’, whether this relates to Cultural Imperialism, fantasy others, mythical others or cultural and political associations of others.

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(10682463), Rachel Hannah Hackett. "CRIME FICTION AS A LENS FOR POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CRITIQUE IN THE MODERN ARAB WORLD: ELIAS KHOURY’S WHITE MASKS AND YASMINA KHADRA’S MORITURI." Thesis, 2021.

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This thesis argues that Morituri by Yasmina Khadra and White Masks by Elias Khoury use the genre of the detective novel as a pretext for social and political critique of Algeria and Lebanon respectively. This thesis links the generic (crime fiction) and the conceptual (Political and Social Critique in Modern Arab World). While the detective novel is traditionally thought of as a non-academic, entertaining part of popular culture, the use of the genre to critique the failure of nation building after colonization elevates the genre and transforms it from mere entertainment to a more serious genre. Both novels are emblematic of a shift in the use of the detective and crime novel to address the political disarray in their respective states and the Arab world as a whole. As modern examples of detective novels in the modern Arab world, Morituri and White Masks transform the genre through their complex interweaving of aspects of the popular genre of detective fiction with the more serious political novel. The historical and political context of both countries at the time of the novels’ settings are an intrinsic part of understanding the crimes and the obfuscation of the perpetrator. In both of these novels, the technical and generic aspects are connected to the thematic, and the detective novel structure is not just there for suspense and entertainment. Instead, this structure points to the neocolonial system, benefitting the most powerful and the most affluent at the expense of the weak, poor, and disadvantaged.

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Books on the topic "East African fiction"

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Corrigan, Peter. The East African mission. Rochester: 22, 1997.

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Viola, André. New fiction in English from Africa: West, East, and South. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998.

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Marchand, Blaine. African journey: A novel. Hull, Quebec: Media-Sphere, Youth Editions, 1990.

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Gill, Harshi Syal. African quilt: Stories of the Asian Indian experience in Kenya. Nairobi, Kenya: East African Educational Publishers Ltd., 2015.

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Kijabe: An African historical saga : a novel. Fayetteville, NC: PREP Pub., 2000.

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Krensky, Stephen. The lion and the hare: An East African folktale. Minneapolis, MN: Millbrook Press, 2009.

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Krensky, Stephen. The lion and the hare: An East African folktale. Minneapolis, MN: Millbrook Press, 2009.

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Azade-Ayse, Rorlich, ed. French and African letters. Istanbul: Isis Press, 2008.

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ill, Kratter Paul, ed. Through Tsavo: A story of an East African savanna. Norwalk, Ct: Soundprints, 1998.

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Croall, Marie P. Marwe: Into the land of the dead : an East African folktale. Minneapolis: Graphic Universe, 2007.

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Book chapters on the topic "East African fiction"

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Galafa, Beaton. "Sex Addiction in Contemporary African Fiction: An Analysis of Selected Works of Short Fiction." In Addiction in South and East Africa, 105–24. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13593-5_7.

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Nyongesa, Andrew. "The Modern State and the Demise of Culture." In Postmodern Reading of Contemporary East African Fiction, 17–50. New York: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003440888-3.

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Nyongesa, Andrew. "Modernism and Automatisation." In Postmodern Reading of Contemporary East African Fiction, 51–78. New York: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003440888-4.

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Nyongesa, Andrew. "Summaries, Conclusions and Research Findings." In Postmodern Reading of Contemporary East African Fiction, 124–32. New York: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003440888-7.

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Nyongesa, Andrew. "Interrogating the Individuated Self." In Postmodern Reading of Contemporary East African Fiction, 3–16. New York: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003440888-2.

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Nyongesa, Andrew. "Modernism and Pathology." In Postmodern Reading of Contemporary East African Fiction, 79–110. New York: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003440888-5.

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Nyongesa, Andrew. "Introduction." In Postmodern Reading of Contemporary East African Fiction, 1–2. New York: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003440888-1.

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Nyongesa, Andrew. "Modernism and ‘Great Literature’." In Postmodern Reading of Contemporary East African Fiction, 111–23. New York: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003440888-6.

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Ali, Kamran Asdar. "Pulp Fictions." In Gendering Urban Space in the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa, 71–99. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230612471_4.

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Sim, Stuart. "Walter Mosley: Easy Rawlins & the African American Experience." In Justice and Revenge in Contemporary American Crime Fiction, 54–73. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137469663_4.

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