Mashairi ya Vita vya Kuduhu : War Poetry in Kiswahili Exchanged at the Time of the Battle of Kuduhu.
Mashairi Ya Vita Vya Kuduhu is a presentation and discussion of both manuscript and published versions of poems written by Lamu poets around the time of the Battle of Kuduhu. The poetic dialogue studied in this volume has played a significant role in the history of Swahili poetry, and its primary co...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Swahili |
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East Lansing :
Michigan State University Press,
1995.
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Colección: | African historical sources.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Mashairi Ya Vita Vya Kuduhu is a presentation and discussion of both manuscript and published versions of poems written by Lamu poets around the time of the Battle of Kuduhu. The poetic dialogue studied in this volume has played a significant role in the history of Swahili poetry, and its primary concern is to inform continued work in this area. The poems contained in this work were transmitted and preserved by speakers of Kiswahili and later collected and preserved by scholars. Chapter One contains the edited poems; Chapter Two consists of the translations. Subsequent chapters include accoun. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (268 pages). |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-245) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780870138942 0870138944 1628951982 9781628951981 |