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Abdilatif Abdalla: Poet in Politics
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Swahili |
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Mkuki na Nyota Publishers,
2016.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; Section 1
- Poet in Politics; 'Deep Language' Crossing Borders3; A Symposium; 'Deep Language' Crossing Borders; Conclusion; References; Abdilatif Abdalla and the Voice of Prophecy; Siwati; References; Abdilatif Abdalla: Poet and Activist. Voice of the Discontented, Voice of Humanity; Kenya: Twendapi? (1968); Sauti ya Dhiki (1973); The Writer and Poet in Society (1976 & 1978); The Right and Might of a Pen (1985); Peace, Love and Unity: for Whom? (1989; poem); A Political Address (1994).
- Risala kwa Washiriki Katika Tamasha la Kitamaduni la Lamu (2009)In Conclusion; References; Whither Swahili Literature? Translation and the World Recognition of Abdilatif Abdalla's Sauti ya Dhiki; Wither Swahili Literature?; Sauti ya Dhiki and the Idea of Breakthrough; Never Will I Let Go; Impasses; Translation; Concluding Remarks; Works Cited; The Poetics of Abdilatif Abdalla's Agony; Doing Things with Words in Prison Poetry; But can words alone bring down a tyrant?; The Multiple "I"-s and Speaking in Tongues; Why Write; Swahili Prosody and Poetry as Autobiography; Masking the Message.
- A Range of Miscellaneous VoicesReferences; The Urgency of Memory in an Age of Greed; Section 2
- Selected Works of Abdilatif Abdalla; Kenya Twendapi Facsimile pages; Wajibu wa Mshairi Katika Jamii Yake; Matatizo ya Mwandishi wa Jamii Katika Afrika Huru; The Right and Might of a Pen; Section 3
- Contexts; Hope and Despair in Kenyan Politics During and After Independence; Existentialism and Swahili Literature; Introduction; Existentialism as a Philosophy and as a Literary Programme; Existentialist Writing in Swahili Literature; Existentialism without Programme: Swahili Poetry.
- An Existentialist Reading of Swahili LiteratureBibliography; Language in Africa Between the Local and the Global: How Political are 'Dialects'?; Introduction; What is 'Deep Language'?; Are 'Dialects' Political
- or rather: How 'Political' Can Dialects Be?; Language in Africa between the Local and the Global; References; Section 4
- Congratulatory Texts; Kwa Abdilatif Abdalla; Kumsherehekea Abdilatif Abdalla; Dear Abdilatif, dear friends and colleagues, ladies and gentlemen; Ndugu wote; Kumkumbuka Bwana Abdilatif Abdalla -Mwalimu Wetu; List of Contributors; Back cover.