..., but, in Taussig's terms, “palpable” and “sensuous.” © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 translation Swahili coast Swahili poetry mimesis appropriation literary network aesthetics utendi I would like to thank Julia and Markus Verne for their initiative to bring together contributions...

... in nineteenth-cen- tury Swahili poetry. Her main research interests have been African manuscripts cultures and East African poetry, as well as historical literary networks along the Swahili coast from Kenya to Mozambique. In an ongoing project...

.... In light of this, it is remarkable that the melodies Bhalo sang and performance style he employed throughout his career were drawn not from the Swahili coast but from the other side of the Indian Ocean. Bhalo’s poetry may have been Swahili, but his music...

... another dictatorship in Middle East preserve through poetry aspects of Swahili tradi- religious garb. In fact, Sheikh Abdilahi’s dismissal tion — whether historical narratives or traditional of democracy goes counter to a global...

... of loss. Ahmed Sheikh Nabhany explicitly aims to had turned out to be just another dictatorship in Middle East preserve through poetry aspects of Swahili tradi- religious garb. In fact, Sheikh Abdilahi’s dismissal tion — whether...

... of loss. Ahmed Sheikh Nabhany explicitly aims to had turned out to be just another dictatorship in Middle East preserve through poetry aspects of Swahili tradi- religious garb. In fact, Sheikh Abdilahi’s dismissal tion — whether...

... of the 29 (1859): 1 – 464. Swahili coast. Similar types of aesthetic presenta- Caton, Steven C. “Peaks of Yemen I Summon”: Poetry as Cul- tion, or aesthetic glorious feats, as well as similar tural Practice in a North Yemeni Tribe. Berkeley: Univer- processes of social and cultural extension...

...., with a focus on the ways in which those who live at, with, and from the Indian Ocean experience this translocal space and render it meaningful. As a result, an understanding of the Indian Ocean emerges in which its size, shape, and range change with the topics at stake. Taking the Swahili coast as a case...

... approach from identity issues (the to the chagrin, sometimes, of grammarians and identity question may be posed in local litera- purists. That’s why George Mhina, one of the tures but is not the condition of their existence). first Swahili novelists, had to defend a practice Far from being pushed...

... articles Swahili studies at MESAAS, Columbia University, and have appeared in journals such as Cultural Anthropol- author of Philosophising in Mombasa: Knowledge, Islam, ogy, American Ethnologist, Contributions to Indian Sociol- and Intellectual Practice on the Swahili Coast (Edinburgh ogy...

... Sea trade, only ties The more recent, by Abdulaziz Lodhi, a member about one-third of the slaves exported from the Swahili of the Stockholm University group project, suggests coast actually left Africa, most being absorbed at Zanzi- greater ethnic consciousness among some groups of bar...

...: Revelry, Rebellion and Popular Consciousness on World Press, 2004). See also the collection of essays Indian Ocean Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century the Swahili Coast, 1856–1888 (London: James Currey, dedicated to these complex issues in “The African Di- (London: Routledge, 1989); Clarence-Smith...

... the Ocean: Considering Travelling Literary Figurations as Part of Swahili Intellectual History .” Journal of African Cultural Studies 28 , no. 2 ( 2015 ): 225 – 40 . Wetter Andreas . “ Amharic Literature in Arabic Script .” Lecture, University of Copenhagen, September 21 , 2017...

... sixteenth century. East Africa and observe the same style of door     and its decoration in use on the Swahili coast. This? For these sailors...

... – 40 . Fabian Johannes . Language and Colonial Power: The Appropriation of Swahili in the Former Belgian Congo, 1880–1938 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1986 . Gates Henry Louis Jr. Tradition and the Black Atlantic . New York : BasicCivitas , 2010...

... and made subject to voyeurism, ble perpetuators of rape, but fails to mention thus lose their centrality; the violence, discrimi- Swahili-­speaking Rwandans. “Given the dif- (DRC) nation, and promiscuity inherent in their society ficulties of accurate identification of perpetra...

..., Arabic-Turkish, Arabic-Urdu, Arabic- of Islam for not being fortunate enough to father a male is- Punjabi, Arabic-Swahili).27 At times, the Qur’anic quotations sue. They continuously reminded him that without a son his were also parodied, used frivolously, given irreverent mean- line would be cut off...

... some Swahili!” Mirzai used this example to show ties to the greater Indian Ocean world but failed to acknowledge his aversion to identifying with anything other than “Iranian.” Ehsaei, Afro-Iran. See also Baghoolizadeh, “Picturing the Other.” 37. Mirzai, History of Slavery...

... be- different regions into conversation, a conversation yond the creation of an encyclopedia of Indian (or that can no longer be restricted to those who can Chinese or Swahili) key concepts, welcome as that read the same corpus of sources and can make would be as a source...

... of surveillance. Bernard Cohn, Colonial- work, to some degree. He expended a tremendous ism and Its Forms of Knowledge: The British in India effort on India and Eastern languages but was very (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996), 10.   slow to learn Swahili while in East Africa, in 1858 – 60...