Descargar ebook de Ben Mtobwa | Descarga Libros Gratis

Street Archives and City Life

Autor: Emily Callaci

Número de Páginas: 280

In Street Archives and City Life Emily Callaci maps a new terrain of political and cultural production in mid- to late twentieth-century Tanzanian urban landscapes. While the postcolonial Tanzanian ruling party (TANU) adopted a policy of rural socialism known as Ujamaa between 1967 and 1985, an influx of youth migrants to the city of Dar es Salaam generated innovative forms of urbanism through the production and circulation of what Callaci calls street archives. These urban intellectuals neither supported nor contested the ruling party's anti-city philosophy; rather, they navigated the complexities of inhabiting unplanned African cities during economic crisis and social transformation through various forms of popular texts that included women's Christian advice literature, newspaper columns, self-published pulp fiction novellas, and song lyrics. Through these textual networks, Callaci shows how youth migrants and urban intellectuals in Dar es Salaam fashioned a collective ethos of postcolonial African citizenship. This spirit ushered in a revolution rooted in the city and its networks—an urban revolution that arose in spite of the nation-state's pro-rural ideology.

A la recherche des logiques paysannes

Número de Páginas: 250

Handbook of Anglophone World Literatures

Autor: Stefan Helgesson , Birgit Neumann , Gabriele Rippl

Número de Páginas: 648

Etudes littéraires africaines

Número de Páginas: 600

The Locations of (World) Literature

Número de Páginas: 273

Location matters, for critics, readers and texts. This book explores the notion of location not simply as geographical, historical, or cultural context but as a standpoint, a position, an orientation, a necessarily partial and particular perspective, however ample it may be, from which writers represent and imagine their worlds. However, the constraint of location in the form of a reductive geographical marker has been felt most acutely by writers of the Global South. This book explores how modern and contemporary writers from Africa and South Asia consider their place in the world, in world literature, and in the wider geographical regions or national literary histories which their work is identified with. What worlds do these literatures simultaneously inhabit and create? What networks do writers and institutions, specific genres and works of literature, but also circuits of readership, translation and publishing, produce? And what are the imagined or discrepant geographies, the different cosmopolitanisms, that may be invented in the process? This ground-up approach – from Lagos, Algier, Niamey, Addis Ababa or Allahabad; in English and in French but also in Swahili, Malayalam, ...

Dar Es Salaam by Night

Autor: Ben R. Mtobwa

Número de Páginas: 198

The Schemers

Autor: Helen Ovbiagele

Número de Páginas: 128

Part of a series of contemporary African fiction, this novel tells the story of Chinwe and her quarry, Chief Ubani whose wife seems oblivious to their scheming. Have the Ubanis got a secret reason for their coolness in the face of apparent adversity?

Where the Children Play

Autor: Christine Botchway

Número de Páginas: 168

When Araba Pari, a gifted young teacher, is sent from Accra to teach in a remote highland school she is at first dismayed. When she realizes that there is a mystery surrouding the reluctance of all the previous teachers to stay more than a few months, she is determined to beat the apparent jinx.