Name: Kujibizana: Questions of Language and Power in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Poetry in Kishwahili
Author: Biersteker, Ann
ISBN: 9780870133909

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Kujibizana: Questions of Language and Power in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Poetry in Kishwahili

by Ann Biersteker

Michigan State University Press, 1996
eISBN: 978-0-87013-893-5 | Cloth: 978-0-87013-390-9
Library of Congress Classification PL8703.5.B54 1995
Dewey Decimal Classification 896.3921

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

The author argues that reading poetry in Kiswahili provides important insights into questions of language and power, as well as into discussions of socialist practice in East Africa and East African resistance to colonialism and neo-colonialism. Includes the text of numerous poems and footnotes.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter I.
Kupambana: Uhuru na Kutungamana Poetry in Kiswahili: Struggles for Freedom and Solidarity

“The Language of Struggle”

I.
Poems as Ideological Texts: Envisioning Kiswahili Speaking Communities/Nation

II.
Establishing Codes, Exploring Stances, Negotiating Strategies

III.
“Regenerative Reconnection” in Literary Composition

Conclusion

Chapter II.
Kujibizana: Ujamaa kwa Vitendo / Dialogue Poetry in Kiswahili and Ujamaa Praxis

Prefaces to the Dialogue

I.
Terms of Address Praxis: Balance of Responsibility for Text Production and Interchange

II.
Establishing Shared Commitments

III.
Establishing an Intellectual Exchange

IV. A.
Dismantling an Argument and Establishing a Commitment to Symbolism

IV. B.
Constructing an Alternative Narrative

IV. C.
Constructing an Alternative Identity and Alternative “Tradition”

V. A.
Refiguring Praxis

V. B.
Toward a Revitalized Praxis

Conclusion

Appendix

Chapter III.
Kazi za Kutunga, Kuhariri, Kutafsiri, na Kusoma / The Significance of Poetic Practice in Kiswahili to the Translation and Interpretation of Early Twentieth-Century Political Poetry

Overview of Contexts of Production

I.
Tenzi as Narratives

II.
Tenzi as Testimony

II. A.
Definition of Audience

II. B. i.
Disruption of Narrative: Internal Dialogue

II. B. ii.
Restructuring Metaphors

II. B. iii.
Restructuring by Manipulation of Genre Conventions

III. A.
Texts as Witnesses

III. B.
Tenzi as Coerced Speech

III. B. i.
Neocolonial Marginalizing of Texts: Example One

III. B. ii.
Neocolonial Marginalizing of Texts: Example Two

III. C.
Denial of the Language of Poetry

Conclusion

Chapter IV.
Kuswahilika, Mfano Mmoja / Poetic Parodies of Missionary Discourse and the Conversion of a Missionary to Kiswahili Dialogue

Missionary Discourse from the East African Coast

Answers to the Hymns

Answer Poems as Parodies

Composers and Collaborators

The Answer Poems

Chapter V.
Utendi na Utumbuizo / Women's Poetry as Scheme, Trope, and Texts

A.
Introduction

I.
Ideological Production and Reproduction under Colonial Rule

II.
Poetic Intertexts: Elaboration, Parody, and Subversion

III.
Ideological Production under Colonial Rule

Conclusion

Utumbuizo wa Fatma binti Athumani and Translation

Bibliography

Index

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