History from Below : the "Vocabulary of Elisabethville" by André Yav: Text, Translations and Interpretive Essay.

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fabian, Johannes
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1990.
Series:Creole language library ; 7.
Subjects:
Yav, André. > Vocabulaire de ville de Elisabethville. > English & Swahili.
Vocabulaire de ville de Elisabethville (Yav, André)
Swahili language > Dialects > Congo (Democratic Republic) > Lubumbashi.
Swahili (Langue) > Dialectes > Congo (République démocratique) > Lubumbashi.
Swahili language > Dialects
Lubumbashi (Congo) > History.
Congo (Democratic Republic) > Lubumbashi
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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).

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