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In their article "Zamyatin's Reception of Well's Fiction," Natalia Aksenova and Marina Albertovna Khatyamova examine several essays written by Yevgeny Zamyatin on Herbert Wells's texts and analyse Zamyatin's reception of Wells's work. Wells's ironic mindset, plot-driven writings, and attraction to parody drew Zamyatin's attention. Zamyatin felt a rapport with the central role of plot dynamics, unorthodox socialist politics, and dystopian tendencies in Wells's fiction. Discussions of the artistic qualities of Wells's writings allow Zamyatin to expound upon his own aesthetic program, known as "synthetism." In these discussions Zamyatin interprets Wells's work as a complex interpretation of technological modernity where the line between humans and gods is actively blurred, and traces the origins of Wellsian fiction to his predecessors, mostly English-language adventure writers. In doing so, Zamyatin gives Wells credit for extending the typical adventure novel into a philosophical realm while keeping it entertaining and captivating. Furthermore, in terms of the reimagining of the Apollonian and Dionisyan opposition as an opposition between English and Irish in Zamyatin's "English stories" of the same period, Wells is read as a typical Englishman: an unorthodox heretic. Ultimately, it becomes clear that these are the qualities that Zamyatin values most in Wells.

Mulk Raj Anand, born in Peshawar (now in Pakistan) on December 12, 1905 and died in Mumbai (Pune), India on September 28, 2004, was an Indian writer in English, notable for his depiction of the lives of the poorer castes in the traditional Indian Society. A pioneer and a trend-setter in the field of Indian fiction in English. He is one of the most important Indian novelists in English. A writer of extraordinary stamina and vitality, apart from about twenty novels and hundreds of short stories in English, he has also written on an astonishingly wide variety of subjects which include art, painting, dance, education, culture, philosophy, culinary arts, aesthetics and literary criticism. Nevertheless, his most ambitious mode of expression has been fiction, and appropriately he has been in the field for nearly six decades. Anand is a novelist of urgent social concerns and preoccupations, and the social impulse is at the heart of the writings. All his novels are concerned with the social reality of India, as perceived by him. In the words of Saros Cowasjee, they are all sociologically or historically oriented. They are written, as S.C. Harrex points out, primarily in response to recent Indian history and socio-political problems, with emphasis on the human immediacy of the crises confronting the modern Indian. Anand writes in a realistic and naturalistic mode, introducing his own modifications into it. In all this, it is obvious, he is very different from the other two major Indian novelists of his generation, R.K. Narayan and Raja Rao, whose literary career too began more or less about the same time as his. Anand places great weight on the social significance of the novel, and through his novels has earnestly tried to convey his deepest concern for the predicament of man, in India in particular. Human suffering caused by a combination of social, religious, economic and political factors, engage his attention.

An examination of the relationship between the changes in numbers, & areas of origin of colored immigrants to GB, & their appearance in fiction. The actual coverage is novels, plays & films about colored people living in GB, & is restricted to those published since 1945. In this period there has developed a sizeable colored minority group. It is shown that several of the important soc questions affecting the group have been ventilated in fiction. It suggests that fiction can usefully supplement more formal soc analyses. AA.

Muslims in Kenyan Politics explores the changing relationship between Muslims and the state in Kenya from precolonial times to the present, culminating in the radicalization of a section of the Muslim population in recent decades. The politicization of Islam in Kenya is deeply connected with the sense of marginalization that shapes Muslims' understanding of Kenyan politics and government policies.Kenya's Muslim population comprises ethnic Arabs, Indians, and black Africans, and its status has varied historically. Under British rule, an imposed racial hierarchy affected Muslims particularly, thwarting the development of a united political voice. Drawing on a broad range of interviews and historical research, Ndzovu presents a nuanced picture of political associations during the postcolonial period and explores the role of Kenyan Muslims as political actors ; English

Tanzanian Anglophone fiction is extant and bustling. The invisibility of Tanzanian fiction in English is not due to the country's inability to produce good- quality Anglophone novels but is related to the challenge in accessing the texts both within and outside Tanzania. Studies about East African fiction tend to ignore the contribution of Tanzanian Anglophone writers in the region. In Tanzania people know more about other canonical African novelists than their very own Anglophone writers. This article explores the emergence and development of Tanzanian Anglophone fiction, paying particular attention to the emergence of Tanzanian Anglophone literary canons and how these canons have inspired and continue to inspire the production of Tanzanian fiction. Starting with the novels produced by the inaugural Tanzanian Anglophone writers in the sixties, and continuing with the most recent works, the paper examines the interface between Swahili and English, translation and self-translation, diasporic writers, universities' and researchers' contributions to the definition of the canon and to the visibility of the fiction in general.

Mit viel Ironie beschreibt der Autor Szenen aus dem täglichen Leben in Kenia. Dabei entsteht ein humorvolles Bild des Kenianers, seinen Besonderheiten im Denken und Handeln und wie dieser mit den großen und kleinen Problemen des Lebens umgeht. Mit zahlreichen Karikaturen. (DÜI-Sbd)