- Titel
- Swahili-Forum
- Untertitel
- Special Issue - Critical Swahili Studies
- Zitierfähige Url:
- https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-857753
- Erschienen in
- Swahili-Forum
- Ausgabe
- 30.2023 - Special Issue
- Abstract (EN)
- At the core of this special issue lies an apparently simple question: What is Swahili Studies? The “critical” perspective entails a question about both epistemological foundations and different versions or notions of “Swahili Studies” – also mirrored in the many institutions teaching Swahili all over the globe. In the same vein, this special issue shows Swahili Studies not as a fixed discipline delimited by geographical, historical, and disciplinary boundaries, and defined canons, but as a subject of an ongoing conversation. The twelve contributions of this special issue deliberately take different perspectives on Swahili Studies: 1. Swahili Studies as mirrored in a variety of different global histories of institutionalization; 2. Critically reflecting upon the notion of “Swahili”, its problematic geographical and linguistic fixations; and 3. Considering the specifically critical role of Uswahili/Mswahili. The aim of this special issue is to hint at the dynamic notions of Swahili – difficult to delimit in clear-cut terms of geography, culture or linguistic parameters. The issue does not give fixed answers or definitions, rather it opens up the multiple possibilities that are of, and from within, Swahili Studies.
- Freie Schlagwörter (EN)
- Critical Swahili Studies, Swahili Worlds, Swahili Identity, Mswahili, Uswahili
- Klassifikation (DDC)
- 496
- HerausgeberIn
- Irene Brunotti
- Serena Talento
- Duncan Tarrant
- Clarissa Vierke
- Herausgeber (Institution)
- Universität Leipzig
- URN Qucosa
- urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-857753
- Veröffentlichungsdatum Qucosa
- 05.06.2023
- Dokumenttyp
- Zeitschriftenheft / Teil eines Periodikums
- Sprache des Dokumentes
- Englisch
- Lizenz / Rechtehinweis
- Introduction
- Critical Swahili Studies: a Collective Exercise in ‘Concepting’ Uswahili
- Fifty-five Years of Kiswahili Studies at Mlimani: Challenges, Prospects and New Perspectives
- What Are You Going to Do With Your Swah? Investigating Students’ Attitudes Towards Kiswahili Studies at the University of Ghana
- Hali ya Ufundishaji wa Kiswahili Nchini Misri Historia na Maendeleo
- Kiswahili Katika Enzi ya Utandawazi: Baina ya Afrika na Amerika
- Speaking Swahili, Being Swahili? Some Reflections on a Shifting Field Over The Past Half Century
- Greater Swahili – Swahili Varieties in L2+ Swahili Teaching
- Swahilité in the French Comorian Diaspora
- The Kenyan Mwananchi and the National Language: Kiswahili and “Pili Mswahili” by Moreno Batamba et l’Orchestre Moja One
- Kiswahili Research in Cognitive and Cultural Linguistics
- The Dance of the Spinning Top: Translating Resistance in the Poetry of Muyaka
- Siku Moja Ofisini – Nafasi ya Upapasi Mjini Zanzibar