Lutz Diegner Lutz Diegner
Biographic Data
| ID | 4993025 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lutz Diegner Lutz Diegner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lutz Diegner Lutz |
| FAMILY NAME | Diegner |
| SIGNATURE | DIEGNER L D L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Postrealist, Postmodernist, Postnation? The Swahili Novel 1987–2010
This essay interrogates the “postnation” in contemporary Swahili novel writing by involving a discussion of two other post-isms, namely postrealism and postmodernism. It starts out by arguing for a classification and periodization of post-independence Swahili writing according to three different paradigms of writing, i.e., a realist, a postrealist, and a nascent synthetic paradigm. Subsequently, it takes a look at postmodernism in Swahili novels …
Good-Bye, Book-Welcome, App? Some Observations on the Current Dynamics of Publishing Swahili Novels
Lutz Diegner, Good-Bye, Book—Welcome, App? Some Observations on the Current Dynamics of Publishing Swahili Novels, Africa Today, Vol. 64, No. 4, African Artistic Practices and New Media (Summer 2018), pp. 31-50
Leaving Parched Gardens and Discussing Narration with the Reader
This reading of three Swahili novels by Said Ahmed Mohamed (Zanzibar/Tanzania) and Kyallo Wamitila (Kenya), published during the last decade, identifies metatextualities as a common feature that has not yet been explored. I argue for using “metatextualities” in the plural and as an umbrella term that denotes a variety of elements in a text that comment on, or refer to, the text itself, one or several groups of texts, or a broader subject or disci…
Postrealist, Postmodernist, Postnation? The Swahili Novel 1987–2010
This essay interrogates the “postnation” in contemporary Swahili novel writing by involving a discussion of two other post-isms, namely postrealism and postmodernism. It starts out by arguing for a classification and periodization of post-independence Swahili writing according to three different paradigms of writing, i.e., a realist, a postrealist, and a nascent synthetic paradigm. Subsequently, it takes a look at postmodernism in Swahili novels …
Leaving Parched Gardens and Discussing Narration with the Reader
This reading of three Swahili novels by Said Ahmed Mohamed (Zanzibar/Tanzania) and Kyallo Wamitila (Kenya), published during the last decade, identifies metatextualities as a common feature that has not yet been explored. I argue for using “metatextualities” in the plural and as an umbrella term that denotes a variety of elements in a text that comment on, or refer to, the text itself, one or several groups of texts, or a broader subject or disci…
Leaving Parched Gardens and Discussing Narration with the Reader
This reading of three Swahili novels by Said Ahmed Mohamed (Zanzibar/Tanzania) and Kyallo Wamitila (Kenya), published during the last decade, identifies metatextualities as a common feature that has not yet been explored. I argue for using “metatextualities” in the plural and as an umbrella term that denotes a variety of elements in a text that comment on, or refer to, the text itself, one or several groups of texts, or a broader subject or disci…
Postrealist, Postmodernist, Postnation? The Swahili Novel 1987–2010
This essay interrogates the “postnation” in contemporary Swahili novel writing by involving a discussion of two other post-isms, namely postrealism and postmodernism. It starts out by arguing for a classification and periodization of post-independence Swahili writing according to three different paradigms of writing, i.e., a realist, a postrealist, and a nascent synthetic paradigm. Subsequently, it takes a look at postmodernism in Swahili novels …
Good-Bye, Book-Welcome, App? Some Observations on the Current Dynamics of Publishing Swahili Novels
Lutz Diegner, Good-Bye, Book—Welcome, App? Some Observations on the Current Dynamics of Publishing Swahili Novels, Africa Today, Vol. 64, No. 4, African Artistic Practices and New Media (Summer 2018), pp. 31-50
Art (3 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (3 works) · Swahili (3 works) · History (2 works) · African history and culture studies (1 work) · Current (fluid) (1 work)