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Review: Baldi, Sergio: Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa. Leiden/Boston: Brill 2021 = Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1: The Near and Middle East 145. ISBN 978-90-04-43847-7.
No full textRecensione di: Gianluigi Martini, Dizionario swahili (Swahili-Italiano, Italiano-Swahili).
No full textSwahili Literature into Italian: The Challenge of Translating Abdilatif Abdalla's Poems
Full text linkThe considerations on the translation of Swahili poetry which are developed in this article originate from a work (carried out with Roberto Gaudioso) devoted to the Italian translation of selected verses by two contemporary poets, Euphrase Kezilahabi and Abdilatif Abdalla. After providing further details about the publication project within the framework of which the translations of Abdilatif Abdalla’s poems were conceived of and accomplished, the focus will be on the textual challenges and the main translational strategies that were adopted in this work, which were based on some stylistic features of his poetry, i.e. the language variety and the prosody. Finally, by drawing from Umberto Eco’s semiotic and aesthetic reflections on translation (2003), the discourse will attempt to show that the stylistic choices adopted by an author intermingle indissolubly with other aspects of that author’s creative work in constructing the text’s whole as it is encountered by the reader/listener
Recensione di: Nico Nassenstein & Paulin Baraka Bose, Kivu Swahili Texts and Grammar Notes.
No full textTraiettorie di sguardi sul romanzo swahili: Vuta n’kuvute di Shafi Adam Shafi
No full textThe present article investigates Shafi Adam Shafi’s Vuta n’kuvute (The tug of war, 1999), a historical novel which is set in Zanzibar in the late colonial period. Textual analysis highlights how the novel’s linguistic and stylistic peculiarities intermingle inextricably with the contents in constructing the text as a whole, as they are loaded with meanings and symbolic implications which help in the reconstruction of many aspects of the work in connection to the literary, socio-cultural and political context of contemporary Tanzania
Recensione di: Cristina Nicolini. Clash of Epistemes: Knowledge of HIV/AIDS in Swahili Literary Genres.
No full textThis is a review of the monograph Clash of Epistemes: Knowledge of HIV/AIDS in Swahili Literary Genres by C. Nicolini. The study, which is based on in-depth research conducted during six months of fieldwork, explores the epistemological articulations involved in the representations of HIV/AIDS in Tanzania as expressed in Swahili literature as well as in interviews and discussions with the participants, in light of the current critical debates around Afrophone literatures and philosophies
La costellazione swahili
No full textThe development of Swahili literature is profoundly marked by the dual
nature of this African language. On the one hand, it is the mother tongue of
the Swahili communities, located mainly on the coast of Kenya and Tanzania
and on the adjacent islands, and on the other hand, it is a vehicular language
that spread to large inland regions of East and Central Africa, initially
through the caravan trade that flourished in the 19th century, then due to
missionary and colonial activities, and after independence thanks to the language policies of the new nations. A local, national and transnational language, therefore, and a language that embraces different religious worlds, from the Islam of coastal communities and Islamised inland areas to Christianity, whose evangelisation in mainland regions was mainly based on Swahili.
This composite literary universe will be outlined in the essay, highlighting
some theoretical and critical points
Compte rendu: Vierke (C.), Greven (K.), dir., Dunia Yao : Utopia / Dystopia in Swahili Fiction
No full textKaribuni! Introduzione alla lingua e cultura swahili
No full textCorso MOOC (Video Intensive) di introduzione alla lingua e cultura swahili, frutto della collaborazione tra L'Orientale e Federica Web Learning, il Centro di Ateneo per l’innovazione, la sperimentazione e la diffusione della didattica multimediale dell’Università di Napoli Federico II. Il corso, articolato in dieci lezioni e liberalmente accessibile sul sito di Federica Web Learning, è rivolto a tutte le persone interessate a scoprire la bellezza della lingua, cultura e letteratura swahili.
Obiettivo del MOOC è offrire agli utenti le nozioni introduttive sulla lingua swahili, insieme a espressioni di uso quotidiano (saluti, presentazioni) e frasi basilari che consentiranno di interagire in modo semplice in situazioni concrete, ad esempio al mercato, sui mezzi di trasporto o al ristorante.
Il corso propone inoltre un percorso per cominciare a conoscere la cultura dei paesi di lingua swahili nei suoi diversi aspetti, in particolare la cucina, l'abbigliamento, le tradizioni verbali, la musica e la letteratura.
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