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| Title: | Stories on Sapitwa: an overview of Lipenga's fiction |
| Author: | Chimombo, Steve |
| Year: | 1998 |
| Periodical: | Journal of Humanities (ISSN 1016-0728) |
| Issue: | 12 |
| Pages: | 77-85 |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | biblio. refs. |
| Geographic terms: | Malawi Central Africa |
| Subjects: | literature Sapitwa (Malawi) Lipenga, Ken Fiction Criticism writing |
| About person: | Ken Lipenga |
| Abstract: | Ken Lipenga (Malawi) is a writer exposed to both African indigenous and Western literary traditions. The Western tradition has formed his literary style and even, admittedly, his treatment of subject matter. Yet he is also conscious of his traditional past, and still experiences its force. The 'decolonization' of English departments at African universities in the 1970s also had an effect on Lipenga's literary career. As part of his own personal 'decolonization' and contribution toward research into oral literature, he turned to his own culture and his own people, that of Mulanje and the folklore centred on Sapitwa Peak. After a brief biographical introduction, the present article explores how Lipenga incorporates African and Western traditions in his short stories which, in his hands, become a composite of the two. Notes, ref. |
