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Eliah Sibonike Mwaifuge is a Senior Lecturer of Literature in English at the University of Dar es Salaam, where he is also the Head of the Department of Literature. Prior to joining the University of Dar es Salaam, as an Assistant Lecturer in the 2000s, he served as a primary school teacher and later a tutor in colleges of education. He has written extensively on Tanzanian Literature in English. His coverage has included all three major genres of Poetry, Drama and the Novel.
This book provides critical reading of the neglected field of Tanzania’s fiction in English. The book uses ideology as a trajectory to examine how the varied fictional representation question and expose the inequalities that persist in Tanzania. As the study of Tanzania fiction in English is minimal, this book provides critical information scholars need to gain a deeper understanding of the country’s Anglophone prose fiction in addition to stimulating debate on research and scholarship. In addition, the book will help people understand how these prose fictions in English respond to the political and ideological agenda of the nation, and use the dominant ideology of the day to subvert the status quo and underline the dynamics of Tanzania’s socio-economic development.
“I am fortunate to have been involved with this project over the past several months as a “development editor,” and I am grateful to have had the opportunity to work with Dr. Mwaifuge and to learn in the process a great deal about Tanzania and about the way the African literary project has developed in that country. It is my privilege to introduce to the world this latest addition to the canon of modern African literary criticism.”
Gareth Cornwell, Professor Emeritus, Rhodes University |
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