Daybreak is Near: Literature, Clans, and the Nation-state in SomaliaIn Daybreak is Near ... : Literature, Clans and the Nation-State in Somalia, Ali Jimale Ahmed examines the role literature has played in modern Somali society of the past half century. The writer examines Somali literature, both written and oral, to trace the development of Somali nationalism, as well as seek explanations for the disintegration of the post-colonial Somali nation-state. |
Contents
Preface | xi |
Literature and the Historical Teleology of the Nation 1 | xx |
Somali Orature | 27 |
Fact and Fiction in Somali Oral Narratives | 37 |
Dissent and the Superstructure | 44 |
The Journey Motif in Somali Literature | 50 |
The Novel as the Private History of the Nation | 59 |
Perceptual Differences Contrapuntal Worlds | 65 |
Narrative as a Politically Symbolic Act | 75 |
From Doxology | 141 |
A Prologue in Transition | 149 |
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