- AutorIn
- Fuko Onoda
- Titel
- Circular motifs and structure in Euphrase Kezilahabi’s Nagona and Mzingile and an ongoing Buddhistic study
- Zitierfähige Url:
- https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-220441
- Quellenangabe
- Swahili-Forum - 23.2016
- Quellenangabe
- Swahili Forum 23 (2016), S. 76-97
- Abstract (EN)
- Nagona and Mzingile, written by a Swahili author Euphrase Kezilahabi, have been considered to have the unique narrative style and complex storyline, which make the novels difficult to understand. This article regards these two novels as a single inner-connected story to reveal a hidden structure, which makes the novels unique. This structure turns out to be a cycle which regularly repeats birth and death. I will try to analyse this circular structure by using thoughts of a theologian Mircea Eliade and Buddhism.
- Freie Schlagwörter (DE)
- Afrikanishe Philosophie, Buddhismus, Swahili Roman
- Freie Schlagwörter (EN)
- African Philosophy, Buddhism, Swahili Novel
- Klassifikation (DDC)
- 496
- Normschlagwörter (GND)
- Afrikanishe Philosophie, Buddhismus, Swahili Roman
- Herausgeber (Institution)
- Osaka University
- Universität Leipzig
- URN Qucosa
- urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-220441
- Veröffentlichungsdatum Qucosa
- 10.03.2017
- Dokumenttyp
- Artikel
- Sprache des Dokumentes
- Englisch