On the Poetics of the Utendi

On the Poetics of the Utendi
Title On the Poetics of the Utendi PDF eBook
Author Clarissa Vierke
Publisher LIT Verlag Münster
Pages 723
Release 2011
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 3643800894

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Originally published as author's thesis (doctoral)--BIGSAS, Bayreuth, 2009.

African Literatures as World Literature

African Literatures as World Literature
Title African Literatures as World Literature PDF eBook
Author Alexander Fyfe
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Pages 283
Release 2022-11-03
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1501379968

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The enormous success of writers such as Teju Cole and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie demonstrates that African literatures are now an international phenomenon. But the apparent global legibility of a small number of (mostly Anglophone) writers in the diaspora raises the question of how literary producers from the continent, both past and present, have situated their work in relation to the world and the kinds of material networks to which this corresponds. This collection shows how literatures from across the African continent engage with conceptualizations of 'the world' in relation to local social and political issues. Focusing on a wide variety of geographic, historical and linguistic contexts, the essays in this volume seek answers to the following questions: What are the topographies of 'the world' in different literary texts and traditions? What are that world's limits, boundaries and possibilities? How do literary modes and forms such as realism, narrative poetry or the political essay affect the presentation of worldliness? What are the material networks of circulation that allow African literatures to become world literature? African literatures, it emerges, do important theoretical work that speaks to the very core of world literary studies today.

Habari ya English? What about Kiswahili?

Habari ya English? What about Kiswahili?
Title Habari ya English? What about Kiswahili? PDF eBook
Author
Publisher Hotei Publishing
Pages 282
Release 2015-04-28
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 900429807X

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'Stringing Coral Beads': The Religious Poetry of Brava (c. 1890-1975)

'Stringing Coral Beads': The Religious Poetry of Brava (c. 1890-1975)
Title 'Stringing Coral Beads': The Religious Poetry of Brava (c. 1890-1975) PDF eBook
Author
Publisher BRILL
Pages 858
Release 2018-08-13
Genre History
ISBN 9004365958

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This book presents fifty-one didactic and devotional Sufi poems (with English translations) composed by the ulama of Brava, on Somalia’s Benadir coast, in Chimiini, a Bantu language related to Swahili and unique to the town. Because the six ulama-poets, among whom two women, guided local believers towards correct beliefs and behaviours in reference to specific authoritative religious texts, the poems allow insight into their authors’ religious education, affiliations, in which the Qādiriyyah and Aḥmadiyyah took pride of place, and regional connections. Because the poems refer to local people, places, events, and livelihoods, they also bring into view the uniquely local dimension of Islam in this small East African port city in this time-period.

Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 12 Asia, Africa and the Americas (1700-1800)

Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 12 Asia, Africa and the Americas (1700-1800)
Title Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 12 Asia, Africa and the Americas (1700-1800) PDF eBook
Author
Publisher BRILL
Pages 932
Release 2018-12-24
Genre Religion
ISBN 9004384162

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Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History 12 (CMR 12) covering the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, Africa and the Americas in the period 1700-1800 is a further volume in a general history of relations between the two faiths from the 7th century to the early 20th century. It comprises a series of introductory essays and also the main body of detailed entries which treat all the works, surviving or lost, that have been recorded. These entries provide biographical details of the authors, descriptions and assessments of the works themselves, and complete accounts of manuscripts, editions, translations and studies. The result of collaboration between numerous leading scholars, CMR 12, along with the other volumes in this series, is intended as a basic tool for research in Christian-Muslim relations. Section Editors: Clinton Bennett, Luis F. Bernabe Pons, Jaco Beyers, Emanuele Colombo, Karoline Cook, Sinéad Cussen, Lejla Demiri, Martha Frederiks, David D. Grafton, Stanisław Grodź, Alan Guenther, Emma Gaze Loghin, Gordon Nickel, Claire Norton, Reza Pourjavady, Douglas Pratt, Radu Păun, Charles Ramsey, Peter Riddell, Umar Ryad, Mehdi Sajid, Cornelia Soldat, Karel Steenbrink, Ann Thomson, Carsten Walbiner

The Arabic Script in Africa

The Arabic Script in Africa
Title The Arabic Script in Africa PDF eBook
Author Meikal Mumin
Publisher BRILL
Pages 420
Release 2014-01-30
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9004256806

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The Arabic script in Africa contains sixteen papers on the past and present use of Arabic script to write African languages. These writing traditions, which are sometimes collectively referred to as Ajami, are discussed for single or multiple languages, with examples from all major linguistic phyla of Africa but one (Khoisan), and from all geographic areas of Africa (North, West, Central, East, and South Africa), as well as a paper on the Ajami heritage in the Americas. The papers analyze (ethno-) historical, literary, (socio-) linguistic, and in particular grammatological aspects of these previously understudied writing traditions and exemplify their range and scope, providing new data for the comparative study of writing systems, literacy in Africa, and the history of (Islam in) Africa.

Youth Language Practices in Africa and Beyond

Youth Language Practices in Africa and Beyond
Title Youth Language Practices in Africa and Beyond PDF eBook
Author Nico Nassenstein
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 378
Release 2015-09-14
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1614518521

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Youth languages have increasingly attracted the attention of scholars and students of various disciplines. African youth languages are a vibrant phenomenon with manifold characteristics involving a range of different languages. This book is a first comprehensive study of African youth languages and presents fresh insights into various youth languages, providing linguistic as well as sociolinguistic data and analyses.