Nani Alionja Nini? Who Had a Taste of What? A Sociopolitical Interpretation of Farouk Topan's Play Aliyeonja Pepo (?A Taste of Heaven?) , Dar es Salaam, 1973
1999; Indiana University Press; Volume: 30; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2979/ral.1999.30.1.44
ISSN1527-2044
Autores Tópico(s)Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
ResumoThe Swahili play Aliyeonja Pepo ("A Taste of Heaven"), 1 written in 1970 by the Zanzibarian playwright Farouk Topan, 2 has hitherto not received much attention in literary criticism. Still, it is generally considered to be an important piece of East African literature; written in beautiful language, it has been performed many times and has been on the secondary school reading list in Tanzania since it was published in 1973. In Elena Zúbková Bertoncini's Outline of Swahili Literature, the standard work on Swahili literature, the discussion of this play even takes up the entire section on drama from Zanzibar (178-82). The play is built on symbolic and implication techniques typical of the school that emerged during the post-independence period of Tanzania, to which, for example, the distinguished writer Ebrahim Hussein also belongs (Kinjeketile, 1969; Mashetani ("Ghosts," 1971), that took theater as a means of communication with the masses, producing works of public and historical interest and social impact (Said A. Mohamed, pers. corr. 30 Oct. 1996).
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