Meg Arenberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 1209130 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Meg Arenberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Meg |
| FAMILY NAME | Arenberg |
| SIGNATURE | ARENBERG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Mohammed Khelef Ghassani’s “Kwetu”
This article explores the themes of freedom and enslavement in the poetry of Zanzibari poet-journalist-activist Mohammed Khelef Ghassani. Starting from the layered meanings of the Kiswahili adage “Mwacha asili ni mtumwa” [he who abandons his origins is a slave], adaptations of which figure prominently in Ghassani’s most famous poetry collection, N’na Kwetu: Sauti ya Mgeni Ugenini [I Have a Home: Voice of a Stranger in a Strange Land], the article…
Converting Achebe’s Africa for the New Tanzanian
Given the centrality of Chinua Achebe’s work in the early debates surrounding language choice in African fiction and Achebe’s own claims about the necessary transformation of English in representing African reality, what happens when his most acclaimed and archetypal novel is translated “back” into an African language? Given the long history of reading Things Fall Apart as an “ethnographic” account of pre-colonial Igbo society addressed to Wester…
Studying African Literature in the Age of the Global
Studying African Literature in the Age of the Global Meg Arenberg I have two main thoughts on the challenge of the global in the field of African studies, both of which stem from my own disciplinary position as a comparatist working on African literatures. The first relates to language and language study, and the second to collaboration with African institutions. I should first contextualize my statements by mentioning that literary studies, too,…
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Converting Achebe’s Africa for the New Tanzanian
Given the centrality of Chinua Achebe’s work in the early debates surrounding language choice in African fiction and Achebe’s own claims about the necessary transformation of English in representing African reality, what happens when his most acclaimed and archetypal novel is translated “back” into an African language? Given the long history of reading Things Fall Apart as an “ethnographic” account of pre-colonial Igbo society addressed to Wester…
Studying African Literature in the Age of the Global
Studying African Literature in the Age of the Global Meg Arenberg I have two main thoughts on the challenge of the global in the field of African studies, both of which stem from my own disciplinary position as a comparatist working on African literatures. The first relates to language and language study, and the second to collaboration with African institutions. I should first contextualize my statements by mentioning that literary studies, too,…
Mohammed Khelef Ghassani’s “Kwetu”
This article explores the themes of freedom and enslavement in the poetry of Zanzibari poet-journalist-activist Mohammed Khelef Ghassani. Starting from the layered meanings of the Kiswahili adage “Mwacha asili ni mtumwa” [he who abandons his origins is a slave], adaptations of which figure prominently in Ghassani’s most famous poetry collection, N’na Kwetu: Sauti ya Mgeni Ugenini [I Have a Home: Voice of a Stranger in a Strange Land], the article…
Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Art (1 work) · Colonialism (1 work)