Fawzia Mustafa
Biographic Data
| ID | 3858836 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fawzia Mustafa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fawzia |
| FAMILY NAME | Mustafa |
| SIGNATURE | MUSTAFA F |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1 Fordham University, New York, USA [email protected] |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Triple Play of Violence in Ismael R. Mbise’s Blood on Our Land
Ismael R. Mbise’s novel Blood on Our Land (1974) re-creates the events known as the Meru Land Case, when in 1951 a group of Wameru from northern Tanganyika petitioned the UN to prevent the British authorities from evicting them from their land. The petition drew international attention to the area for a fleeting moment and, though unsuccessful, it has since entered the national imaginary as an original gesture of peaceful resistance to colonial c…
Swahili Histories and Texts in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Paradise
Most of the literary scholarship on Abdulrazak Gurnah's novel Paradise (1984) has focused extensively on Gurnah's subtle erudition, artful intertextuality and his complex weaving of Islamic and biblical references via the Yusuf/Joseph Qu'ranic and Biblical prophet story. Multiple readings of his equally sophisticated and sometimes playful engagement with Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and the spawn of its own, massive textual universe have com…
Reading Development And Writing Africa
Swahili Histories and Texts in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Paradise
Most of the literary scholarship on Abdulrazak Gurnah's novel Paradise (1984) has focused extensively on Gurnah's subtle erudition, artful intertextuality and his complex weaving of Islamic and biblical references via the Yusuf/Joseph Qu'ranic and Biblical prophet story. Multiple readings of his equally sophisticated and sometimes playful engagement with Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and the spawn of its own, massive textual universe have com…
Reading Development And Writing Africa
Reading Development And Writing Africa
Swahili Histories and Texts in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Paradise
Most of the literary scholarship on Abdulrazak Gurnah's novel Paradise (1984) has focused extensively on Gurnah's subtle erudition, artful intertextuality and his complex weaving of Islamic and biblical references via the Yusuf/Joseph Qu'ranic and Biblical prophet story. Multiple readings of his equally sophisticated and sometimes playful engagement with Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and the spawn of its own, massive textual universe have com…
The Triple Play of Violence in Ismael R. Mbise’s Blood on Our Land
Ismael R. Mbise’s novel Blood on Our Land (1974) re-creates the events known as the Meru Land Case, when in 1951 a group of Wameru from northern Tanganyika petitioned the UN to prevent the British authorities from evicting them from their land. The petition drew international attention to the area for a fleeting moment and, though unsuccessful, it has since entered the national imaginary as an original gesture of peaceful resistance to colonial c…
History (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (2 works)