Tanzanian Anglophone Fiction:

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" Tanzanian Anglophone Fiction: "
John Wakota

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1083631
Doc. No	:	LA127260
Call No	:	‭10.1163/26836408-0120102004‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	John Wakota
Title & Author	:	Tanzanian Anglophone Fiction: [Article] : A Survey\ John Wakota
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Utafiti
Date	:	2017
Volume/ Issue Number	:	12/1-2
Page No	:	51–70
Abstract	:	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.
Descriptor	:	African Studies
Descriptor	:	bilingual writers
Descriptor	:	Diasporan African writers
Descriptor	:	hyper-canonization
Descriptor	:	literary canon
Descriptor	:	selective canons
Descriptor	:	Sociology Anthropology
Descriptor	:	Swahili literature
Descriptor	:	Tanzanian Anglophone fiction
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/26836408-0120102004‬