Slavery and its space in Kiswahili Literature.

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dc.contributor.authorMutembei, Aldin K.
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-29T15:13:47Z
dc.date.available2019-07-29T15:13:47Z
dc.date.issued2016-06-16
dc.description.abstractAbstract The Swahili Community, was, by and large, shaped, influenced, and affected by slavery. From African hinterland to Bagamoyo on the coast of Tanganyika (now Tanzania) and later to Zanzibar en route to outside Africa, the influence was immense. Using the Intertextuality theory, the paper examines how Swahili creative writers have portrayed the experience of slavery in the span of fifty years. It analyses three Swahili texts: Uhuru wa Watumwa (1934), Maisha ya Tippu Tip (1966) and Tendehogo (1984) in an attempt to see the conceptualization and challenges of slavery in Swahili society in that timeline and duration. In particular, the paper attempts to address and find answers to the following queries: How did the prior textual memory of slaves contribute to the realization of their slave-hood at any given material time? Conversely, how did such realization help or become a hindrance in negotiating slavery on one hand, and antislavery in public and private spaces? This article will be looking into forms of resistance to slavery as depicted in Swahili literature. Putting the concept in a contemporary scrutiny, the article attempts to find out if there has been a change in the conceptualization of slavery in the Swahili world. Has the concept of slavery in the Swahili literature gone beyond classical slavery to embrace other forms of slavery in and outside Africa? Key words: Swahili, slavery, servitude, darkness, Intertextuality, textual memory,en_US
dc.identifier.citationMutembei, A.K, 2016en_US
dc.identifier.issn1229 9308
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/5292
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherResearch Insititude - Hankuk University of Foreign Studiesen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesAsian Journal of African Studies. Vol. 39;No. 2
dc.subjectKiswahili Literatureen_US
dc.subjectSlaveryen_US
dc.subjectServitudeen_US
dc.subjectDarknessen_US
dc.subjectIntertextualityen_US
dc.subjectTextual memoryen_US
dc.subjectResearch Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGIONen_US
dc.titleSlavery and its space in Kiswahili Literature.en_US
dc.typeJournal Article, Peer Revieweden_US
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