- AutorIn
- Magdaline N. Wafula
- Titel
- ‘Tradition’ versus ‘modernity’: generational conflict in Vuta n'Kuvute, Kufa Kuzikana, Msimu wa Vipepeo and Tumaini
- Zitierfähige Url:
- https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-90642
- Quellenangabe
- Swahili-Forum - 18.2011
- Quellenangabe
- Swahili Forum 18 (2011), S. 135-162
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 2011
- Abstract (EN)
- The paper focuses on generational conflicts as depicted in four Swahili novels namely: Vuta N’kuvute, Kufa Kuzikana, Msimu wa Vipepeo and Tumaini. Generational conflicts depicted in the novels are seen as a contest between tradition and modernity when viewed against the cultural changes that have taken place within the East African societies. Authors have dep-loyed narrative voice and focalization narrative techniques to communicate the implied au-thor’s ideological stance on the notions of tradition and modernity in respect to the conflicting issues captured in each novel. Section two highlights some postulations about the concepts of ‘modernity’ and ‘tradition’. The third section discusses the concepts of generation and generational conflicts while the fourth focuses on narrative voice and focalization as the narrative strategies that reveal gene-rational conflicts portrayed in the four novels. The final section is the conclusion relating the ideological stance of the implied author in relation to the concepts of modernity and tradition.
- Freie Schlagwörter (DE)
- ostafrikanische Literatur, Romane, Swahili, Tradition, Moderne, Generationskonflikt, narrative Strategien
- Freie Schlagwörter (EN)
- East-African literature, Swahili, novel, tradition, modernity, narrative strategies, generational conflict
- Klassifikation (DDC)
- 496
- Normschlagwörter (GND)
- Ostafrika, Literatur, Roman, Swahili, Tradition, Moderne, Generationskonflikt
- Herausgeber (Institution)
- Universität Bayreuth
- Universität Mainz
- URN Qucosa
- urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-90642
- Veröffentlichungsdatum Qucosa
- 16.08.2012
- Dokumenttyp
- Artikel
- Sprache des Dokumentes
- Englisch