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Title:

Translocal connections across the Indian Ocean : Swahili speaking networks on the move / edited by Francesca Declich.

Publisher:

Brill,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xi, 321 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Swahili-speaking peoples--History.
Swahili-speaking peoples.
Indian Ocean.
Somalia.
Tanzania.
Zanzibar.
Comoros.
Madagascar.
Great Britain.
Swahili.
diasporas.
social networks.
social history.
Islam.
female slaves.
poetry.
sacrificial rites.
social media.
spirits.
History.

Other Authors:

Declich, Francesca, editor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003105785

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Swahili elites and the concept of long-distance nationalism within the diaspora / Mohamed Ahmed Saleh. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Brava: a Swahili cultural enclave in a Somali context / Alessandra Vianello -- Sufism, Salafism, and the discursive tradition of religious poetry in Brava / Mohamed Kassim -- Translocal links and women slaves in nineteenth-century Somalia / Francesca Declich -- Sasa, pote, majeshi yetu duniani: Swahili poetry and the translocal moment of World War II / Katrin Bromber -- Translocality, texts and discourses: ritual transformations of Islamic sacrifices in Tanzania / Gerard C. van de Bruinhorst -- Local ideas of fashion and translocal connections: a view from upcountry Tanganyika / Maria Suriano -- Translocal interconnections within the Swahili spirit world: the role of Pemba and the Comoro Islands / Madagascar / Linda Giles -- Translocal experiences and intersecting mobilities: reflections on motility and actual and imagined movability in contemporary Zanzibar / Kjersti Larsen -- Skype, Facebook, and chat rooms: new modes of expression and changing gender relations among Swahili youth at home and abroad / Rebecca Gearhart Mafazy -- Integration and identity of Swahili speakers in England: case study of Swahili women / Ida Hadjivayanis -- Swahili elites and the concept of long-distance nationalism within the diaspora / Mohamed Ahmed Saleh.

Summary:

The book describes the worlds where Swahili is spoken as multi-centred contexts that cannot be thought of as located in a specific coastal area of Kenya or Tanzania. The articles presented discuss a range of geographical areas where Swahili is spoken, from Somalia to Mozambique along the Indian Ocean, in Europe and the US. In an attempt to de-essentialize the concepts of translocality and cosmopolitanism, the emphasis of the book is on translocality as experienced by different social strata and by gender and cosmopolitanism as an acquired attitude.

Series:

African Social Studies Series, 1568-1203 ; volume 37

ISBN:

9004354077
9789004354074

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1038006985

LCCN:

2018289113

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)