Habari ya English? What about Kiswahili? East Africa as a literary and linguistic contact zone

Diegner, Lutz; Schulze-Engler, Frank

AfricaBib

bibliographic database
Line

New search

The free AfricaBib App for Android is available here

Periodical issue

Leiden University catalogue

WorldCat

Title:	Habari ya English? What about Kiswahili? East Africa as a literary and linguistic contact zone
Editors:	Diegner, Lutz Schulze-Engler, Frank
Year:	2015
Periodical:	Matatu: Journal for African Culture and Society (ISSN 0932-9714)
Volume:	46
Pages:	274
Language:	English
City of publisher:	Leiden
Publisher:	Brill Rodopi
ISBN:	9789004292260; 9789004298071
Geographic terms:	East Africa Kenya Tanzania
Subjects:	Swahili language literature language usage codeswitching women writers translation AIDS conference papers (form) 2011
About persons:	Abdulrazak Gurnah (1948-) David G. Maillu (1939-)
External link:	https://brill.com/view/journals/mata/46/1/mata.46.issue-1.xml
Abstract:	This issue of Matatu brings together selected papers from a symposium in Frankfurt (Germany) organized in 2011. The papers discuss diverse developments in literature, language and culture in Kenya and Tanzania, ranging from the literary use of code-switching in popular fiction and the poetic use of Swahili in hip-hop texts, to the role of translation in the development of Swahili and the status of Sheng and Engsh. Titles: Introduction: habari ya contact zone? East African literature revisited (Lutz Diegner & Frank Schulze-Engler); Learning to read (Abdulrazak Gurnah); Dialogic Swahili literature: key to harmonization in diversity (Euphrase Kezilahabi); Nguvu versus power: resilience of Swahili: language as shown in literature and translation (Said A.M. Khamis); Regional or local? On 'literary trajectories' in recent Swahili writing (Mikhail D. Gromov); Comparing the incomparable? On the poetic use of language in Swahili hip-hop and 'classical' Swahili poetry (Clarissa Vierke); Literary code-switching in contemporary Swahili popular fiction in Tanzania (Uta Reuster-Jahn); O-Swahili: language and liminality (Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor); Measuring silence: dialogic contact zones in Abdulrazak Gumah's 'By the sea' and 'Desertion' (Sissy Helft); Code-switching in Kenyan women's literature after 2000 (Alina N. Rinkanya); HIV/AIDS in Kiswahili and English literary works (Aldin K. Mutembei); Mapping hybridity, transgression and literary experimentalism in Kenyan literature: David G. Maillu (Kyallo Wadi Wamitila); From stigma to status: Sheng and Engsh in Kenya's linguistic and literary space (Lillian Kaviti); The role of translations in the development of Swahili language and literature (Gabriel Ruhumbika). [ASC Leiden abstract]