...Clarissa Vierke Abstract The Swahili poetry of the master poet Fumo Liyongo, which dates between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, draws much of its imagery from the Indian Ocean, and in a particularly sensuous way: the poems paint baroque tableaux of Swahili material culture, evoking...

...-independence Swahili Historiographic Poetry.” Swahili Forum 17 ( 2010 ): 34 – 57 . Web. 16 Jun. 2015 . < http://www.qucosa.de/fileadmin/data/qucosa/documents/9085/17_05_Rettov%C3%A1.pdf .> ———, ed. and trans. We Hold on to the Word of Lizard. A Small Anthology of Zimbabwean Ndebele Writing...

... through astute analyses of Indian Ocean novels. In “Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Fictions of the Swahili Coast: Littoral Locations and Amphibian Aesthetics,” Samuelson focuses on Gurnah’s novels, in which the “most consistent structure of feeling that the coast elicits” is a prevalent “melancholia that attends...

... in Arabic script: African ʿajamis like Wolofal and Swahili, or Jawi in Southeast Asia, although Ottoman Turkish might also qualify. These examples are consigned to the margins of every discipline as currently configured: to the regional margins of Arabic or Middle Eastern studies; the orthographic margins...

.../literature/book-week/.premium-review-1.6164357 . Kraska-Szlenk Iwona . “ Address Inversion in Swahili: Usage Patterns, Cognitive Motivation, and Cultural Factors .” Cognitive Linguistics 29 , no. 3 ( 2018 ). https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2017-0129 . LaCapra Dominick . Writing History...

... responsibility to literatures of the non-West. The question is: How should English literatures of South Asia or East Africa, for example, be contextualized in terms of relevant subcontinental and regional literatures in other languages? Should texts originally written in Urdu, Swahili, or Arabic...