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Dr. Mpale Yvonne Mwansasu Silkiluwasha

Senior Lecturer

College of Humanities

Literature

Biography

Mpale Yvonne Mwansasu Silkiluwasha is a Senior Lecturer of Literature at the University of Dar es salaam in the Department of Literature. She hold a PhD in English Studies from Illinois State University, USA where she joined the program as a Fulbright Scholar. Her research interests are childhood studies; particularly, the intersection between children's literature and issues of marginality. Her most recent publications have been on the representation of children and young adults with disabilities and those living in the streets in children's stories together with the position of African culture in terms of language and orality in globalised literary texts.

Research Interest

Research on childhood and the representation of children from the margin (in terms of race, class, disability, and any form of otherness) in literary texts for children and young adults

Studying the survival of African orality as evident in modern songs and/or stories and compromises that are made albeit the survival.

Contacts

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Projects

“Teaching to Transgress:” Centering Storytelling and Humanizing Pedagogies for Liberation and Social Justice In collaboration with Raven L. Jones, Department of Teacher Education, Michigan State University

Publications

[PDF] Orality in Tololwa Mollel's Books for Children: Translation, Exploitation, and Adaptation of African Oral Literature M Silkiluwasha - Sankofa: A Journal of African Children's and Young Adult Literature, June 2024

A Counter Reading of Globalised Children's Literature in Mollel's Books. MYM Silkiluwasha - Umma: The Journal of Contemporary Literature 2023 .

Diasporic Post-Colonial African Children's Books and the Logic of Abjection MYM Silkiluwasha - Marang: Journal of Language and Literature, 2015

Marginality and Liminality in Tara Sullivan's Golden Boy MYM Silkiluwasha - Utafiti, 2020 -

Reflecting and Reflexing on Book Awards: A Case Study of the Burt Award MYM Silkiluwasha - Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies, 2021

Intricacies of Translating Children's Books in Tanzania M Silkiluwasha - Journal of Humanities & Social Science (JHSS), 2023