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Author : Jan Knappert
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Traditional Swahili Poetry written by Jan Knappert and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1967 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Annmarie Drury
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628952415
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)
Download or read book Stray Truths written by Annmarie Drury and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stray Truths is a stirring introduction to the poetry of Euphrase Kezilahabi, one of Africa’s major living authors, published here for the first time in English. Born in 1944 on Ukerewe Island in Tanzania (then the Territory of Tanganyika), Kezilahabi came of age in the newly independent nation. His poetry confronts the task of postcolonial nation building and its conundrums, and explores personal loss in parallel with nationwide disappointments. Kezilahabi sparked controversy when he published his first poetry collection in 1974, introducing free verse into Swahili. His next two volumes of poetry (published in 1988 and 2008) confirmed his status as a pioneering and modernizing literary force. Stray Truths draws on each of those landmark collections, allowing readers to encounter the myriad forms and themes significant to this poet over a span of more than three decades. Even as these poems jettison the constraints of traditional Swahili forms, their use of metaphor connects them to traditional Swahili poetics, and their representational strategies link them to indigenous African arts more broadly. To date, translations of Swahili poetry have been focused on scholarly interpretations. This literary translation, in contrast, invites a wide audience of readers to appreciate the verbal art of this seminal modernist writer.
Author : Jan Knappert
Publisher : London [etc.] : Heinemann Educational
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)
Download or read book Four Centuries of Swahili Verse written by Jan Knappert and published by London [etc.] : Heinemann Educational. This book was released on 1979 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jan Knappert
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Swahili Islamic Poetry: Introduction, The celebration of Mohammed's birthday, Swahili Islamic cosmology written by Jan Knappert and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1971 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jan Knappert
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 : 9789004068773
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)
Download or read book Epic Poetry in Swahili written by Jan Knappert and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1983 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lyndon Harries
Publisher : Oxford, Clarendon P
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)
Download or read book Swahili Poetry written by Lyndon Harries and published by Oxford, Clarendon P. This book was released on 1962 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alamin Mazrui
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0896802523
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)
Download or read book Swahili Beyond the Boundaries written by Alamin Mazrui and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa is a marriage of cultures: African and Asian, Islamic and Euro-Christian. Nowhere is this fusion more evident than in the formation of Swahili, Eastern Africa's lingua franca, and its cultures. Swahili Beyond the Boundaries: Literature, Language, and Identity addresses the moving frontiers of Swahili literature under the impetus of new waves of globalization in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. These momentous changes have generated much theoretical debate on several literary fronts, as Swahili literature continues to undergo transformation in the mill of human creativity. Swahili literature is a hybrid that is being reconfigured by a conjuncture of global and local forces. As the interweaving of elements of the colonizer and the colonized, this hybrid formation provides a representation of cultural difference that is said to constitute a "third space," blurring existing boundaries and calling into question established identitarian categorizations. This cultural dialectic is clearly evident in the Swahili literary experience as it has evolved in the crucible of the politics of African cultural production. However, Swahili Beyond the Boundaries demonstrates that, from the point of view of Swahili literature, while hybridity evokes endless openness on questions of home and identity, it can simultaneously put closure on specific forms of subjectivity. In the process of this contestation, a new synthesis may be emerging that is poised to subject Swahili literature to new kinds of challenges in the politics of identity, compounded by the dynamics and counterdynamics of post-Cold War globalization.
Author : Jan Knappert
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004659242
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)
Download or read book Swahili Islamic Poetry written by Jan Knappert and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kai Kresse
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748631739
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)
Download or read book Philosophising in Mombasa written by Kai Kresse and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophising in Mombasa provides an approach to the anthropological study of philosophical discourses in the Swahili context of Mombasa, Kenya. In this historically established Muslim environment, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, philosophy is investigated as social discourse and intellectual practice, situated in everyday life. This is done from the perspective of an 'anthropology of philosophy', a project which is spelled out in the opening chapter. Entry-points and guidelines for the ethnography are provided by discussions of Swahili literary genres, life histories, and social debates. From here, local discourses of knowledge are described and analysed. The social environment and discursive dynamics of the Old Town are portrayed, firstly, by means of following and contextualising informal discussions among neighbours and friends at daily meeting points in the streets; and secondly, by presenting and discussing in-depth case studies of local intellectuals and their contributions to moral and intellectual debates within the community. Taking recurrent internal discussions on social affairs, politics, and appropriate Islamic conduct as a focus, this study sheds light on local practices of critique and reflection. In particular, three local intellectuals (two poets, one Islamic scholar) are portrayed against the background of regional intellectual history, Islamic scholarship, as well as common public debates and private discussions. The three contextual portrayals discuss exemplary issues for the wider field of research on philosophical discourse in Mombasa and the Swahili context on the whole, with reference to the lives and projects of distinct individual thinkers. Ultimately, the study directs attention beyond the regional and the African contexts, towards the anthropological study of knowledge and intellectual practice around the world.
Author : Ustadh Mahmoud Mau
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004525726
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)
Download or read book In This Fragile World written by Ustadh Mahmoud Mau and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-02-06 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume is a pioneering collection of poetry by the outstanding Kenyan poet, intellectual and imam Ustadh Mahmmoud Mau (born 1952) from Lamu island, once an Indian Ocean hub, now on the edge of the nation state. By means of poetry in Arabic script, the poet raises his voice against social ills and injustices troubling his community on Lamu. The book situates Mahmoud Mau’s oeuvre within transoceanic exchanges of thoughts so characteristic of the Swahili coast. It shows how Swahili Indian Ocean intellectual history inhabits an individual biography and writings. Moreover, it also portrays a unique African Muslim thinker and his poetry in the local language, which has so often been neglected as major site for critical discourse in Islamic Africa. The selected poetry is clustered around the following themes: jamii: societal topical issues, ilimu: the importance of education, huruma: social roles and responsabilities, matukio: biographical events and maombi: supplications. Prefaced by Rayya Timamy (Nairobi University), the volume includes contributions by Jasmin Mahazi, Kai Kresse and Kadara Swaleh, Annachiara Raia and Clarissa Vierke. The authors’ approaches highlight the relevance of local epistemologies as archives for understanding the relationship between reform Islam and local communities in contemporary Africa.
