English, Cosmopolitanism and the Myth of National Linguistic Homogeneity in Nuruddin Farah's Fiction

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dc.contributor.authorAndindilile, Michael
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-22T19:29:48Z
dc.date.available2016-09-22T19:29:48Z
dc.date.issued2014-06-24
dc.descriptionFull text can be accessed at http://fmls.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/06/24/fmls.cqu025.shorten_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper analyses the intricacies of using English in a traditionally non-English context such as Somalia through the work of its foremost anglophone writer, Nuruddin Farah. Farah uses English to re-imagine the nation and promote intra-, pan- and transnational discourses within and outside Africa. The analysis of Farah has been informed by the articulations of Ernest Renan, Ernest Gellner and Benedict Anderson, within the view of Somalia's now-contested exceptionalism. In Farah's hands, English becomes a vehicle for bringing together diverse linguistic, literary, cultural and religious expressions into a genre that facilitates transnational discourse. The paper argues that the anglophone African literary tradition that Farah embraces gains the capacity to transcend national boundaries and broadens – rather than limits – the scope and coverage of national and transnational literatures.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAndindilile, M., 2014, June. English, Cosmopolitanism and the Myth of National Linguistic Homogeneity in Nuruddin Farah's Fiction. In Forum for Modern Language Studies (p. cqu025). Oxford University Press.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/fmls/cqu025
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/4262
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherOxford University Pressen_US
dc.subjectNuruddin Farahen_US
dc.subjectAnglophonismen_US
dc.subjectLanguage and literatureen_US
dc.subjectNational imaginingen_US
dc.subjectCosmopolitanismen_US
dc.subjectSomali exceptionalismen_US
dc.subjectAfrican literatureen_US
dc.titleEnglish, Cosmopolitanism and the Myth of National Linguistic Homogeneity in Nuruddin Farah's Fictionen_US
dc.typeJournal Article, Peer Revieweden_US
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