Said A M Khamis
Biographic Data
| ID | 5604056 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Said A M Khamis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Said A M |
| FAMILY NAME | Khamis |
| SIGNATURE | KHAMIS S A M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Nguvu versus Power: Resilience of Swahili Language as Shown in Literature and Translation
Versatility of the Taarab lyric: Local aspects and global influences
Even in an extreme case of ‘art for art sake’, literature invariably shows a correlation with its function(s). It partakes of Wellek/Warren’s utility axiom that ... [t]he nature of an object follows from its use: it is what it does ... an artefact has the structure proper to the performance of its function, together with whatever accessories, time and materials may make it possible, and taste may think it desirable, to add ... (1973:29). The exam…
Utandawazi au utandawizi? Jinsi lugha ya riwaya mpya ya Kiswahili inavyodai
Mwongozo —the Study Guide to Swahili Literary Works: Its Role as a Component in Education in Kenya
Mwongozo—the Study Guide to Swahili Literary Works:Its Role as a Component in Education in Kenya Said A.M. Khamis Designed to play a pedagogic role, mwongozo,1 the study guide to Swahili literature, had by the 1970s already penetrated2 Kenya educational practice, causing the "relationship" between Swahili literature and Swahili literary study to appear more visible, in spite of the opposition inherent in them: literature being an art, and literar…
Signs of New Features in the Swahili Novel
A quick glance at the development of the Swahili novel reveals that a number of Swahili novels written from the 1990s to date, have detached themselves in various ways from hitherto Swahili novels written following the mainstream realist mode. This "new" novel seems to "pervasively" adopt the fantastic, magical, and postmodernist tendencies that, according to the writer of this essay, adequately capture the cacophony and decay of the East African…
From Written through Oral to Mediated Oral: The Example of Music
Treatment of Nature in Mohamed S. Mohamed's Novels and Short Stories
No abstract
Classicism in Shaaban Robert's Utopian Novel, Kusadikika
Classicism embodies elasticity beyond that of acknowledged excellence (Cuddon 122). On the one hand, it is associated with "literary immortality" or "timelessness," and on the other, with the "universality" that goes with "humanistic idealism." A classical work like Shaaban Robert's Kusadikika (1951), 1 therefore, shows openendedness and a certain flexibility that allows for an analysis oscillating between the past and the present. Kusadikika is …
Signs of New Features in the Swahili Novel
A quick glance at the development of the Swahili novel reveals that a number of Swahili novels written from the 1990s to date, have detached themselves in various ways from hitherto Swahili novels written following the mainstream realist mode. This "new" novel seems to "pervasively" adopt the fantastic, magical, and postmodernist tendencies that, according to the writer of this essay, adequately capture the cacophony and decay of the East African…
Classicism in Shaaban Robert's Utopian Novel, Kusadikika
Classicism embodies elasticity beyond that of acknowledged excellence (Cuddon 122). On the one hand, it is associated with "literary immortality" or "timelessness," and on the other, with the "universality" that goes with "humanistic idealism." A classical work like Shaaban Robert's Kusadikika (1951), 1 therefore, shows openendedness and a certain flexibility that allows for an analysis oscillating between the past and the present. Kusadikika is …
From Written through Oral to Mediated Oral: The Example of Music
Classicism in Shaaban Robert's Utopian Novel, Kusadikika
Classicism embodies elasticity beyond that of acknowledged excellence (Cuddon 122). On the one hand, it is associated with "literary immortality" or "timelessness," and on the other, with the "universality" that goes with "humanistic idealism." A classical work like Shaaban Robert's Kusadikika (1951), 1 therefore, shows openendedness and a certain flexibility that allows for an analysis oscillating between the past and the present. Kusadikika is …
Treatment of Nature in Mohamed S. Mohamed's Novels and Short Stories
No abstract
Signs of New Features in the Swahili Novel
A quick glance at the development of the Swahili novel reveals that a number of Swahili novels written from the 1990s to date, have detached themselves in various ways from hitherto Swahili novels written following the mainstream realist mode. This "new" novel seems to "pervasively" adopt the fantastic, magical, and postmodernist tendencies that, according to the writer of this essay, adequately capture the cacophony and decay of the East African…
From Written through Oral to Mediated Oral: The Example of Music
Mwongozo —the Study Guide to Swahili Literary Works: Its Role as a Component in Education in Kenya
Mwongozo—the Study Guide to Swahili Literary Works:Its Role as a Component in Education in Kenya Said A.M. Khamis Designed to play a pedagogic role, mwongozo,1 the study guide to Swahili literature, had by the 1970s already penetrated2 Kenya educational practice, causing the "relationship" between Swahili literature and Swahili literary study to appear more visible, in spite of the opposition inherent in them: literature being an art, and literar…
Versatility of the Taarab lyric: Local aspects and global influences
Even in an extreme case of ‘art for art sake’, literature invariably shows a correlation with its function(s). It partakes of Wellek/Warren’s utility axiom that ... [t]he nature of an object follows from its use: it is what it does ... an artefact has the structure proper to the performance of its function, together with whatever accessories, time and materials may make it possible, and taste may think it desirable, to add ... (1973:29). The exam…
Utandawazi au utandawizi? Jinsi lugha ya riwaya mpya ya Kiswahili inavyodai
Nguvu versus Power: Resilience of Swahili Language as Shown in Literature and Translation
Art (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (4 works) · History (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Swahili (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works)