History from Below : the "Vocabulary of Elisabethville" by André Yav: Text, Translations and Interpretive Essay.
Johannes Fabian with assistance from Kalundi Mango (Administrator, National Museum of Zaire) and with linguistic notes by Walter Schicho (University of Vienna). An extraordinary linguistic and sociopolitical document, this is a history of colonization written by the colonized, about the colonized, a...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
1990.
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Colección: | Creole language library ;
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- HISTORY FROM BELOW; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Foreword; Table of contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Part One: The Document; Linguistic Notes on the 'Vocabulary of Elisabethville'; 1. PRESUPPOSITIONS AND GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS; 2. ORTHOGRAPHIC AND MORPHO-PHONOLOGICAL REALIZATION; 3. SYNTAX; 3.1. Noun class system and agreement; Nominal phrases; 3.2. Negation, time, aspect, and mood; Time/T; Aspect/A; Negation/N; Mood/M; 4. CONCLUSION; Part Two: Translations; Vocabulaire de Ville de Elisabethville: Introductory Pages.
- Vocabulaire de Ville de Elisabethville: Shaba Swahili VersionVocabulaire de Ville de Elisabethviïle: English Translation; Notesto the English Translation; Part Three: Interpretations; Thoughts Against Suffering:The Making of Vernacular Colonial Historyin the 'Vocabulary of Elisabethville'; 1. USES OF INTERPRETATION; 2. DISCOVERY AND RECEPTION; 3. WHAT'S IN A NAME: THE TITLE 'VOCABULAIRE'; 4. AUTHOR AND SPONSORS; 5. WRITER(S) AND READERS: RHETORICAL INTENT AND COGNITIVE INTERESTS; 5.1. History as seeing, listening, and writing; 5.2. History as thought, knowledge, explanation, and memory.
- 6. THE STORY OF THE STORY: OBSERVATIONS ON THE VOCABULAIRE'S CONSTRUCTION6.1. Historiographyand narrative; 6.2. Sequence and consequence: chronologyand topology; 6.3. Placing and timing: logic vs. performance; 6.4. Breaks and connections: the 'archeology' of the Vocabulaire, ; 7. CONCLUSION: A LESSON IN LIVING; 7.1. Subject; 7.2. Perspective; 7.3. Message; Map; Bibliography; HISTORY FROM BELOW (CLL 7).