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Common Knowledge
No full textIn the age of information, universities should be at the forefront of preserving and strengthening our information commons—the shared wellspring of ideas and innovation from which everyone may draw.
Faculty co-hosts: Shona Kitchen (Digital +Media) + Kevin Zucker (Painting)https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/president_sharedvoices/1000/thumbnail.jp
ChiShona neMufaro. Introduzione alla grammatica shona con elementi di storia della lingua e analisi contrastiva shona/swahili
No full text[Italiano]: Questo volume è una pubblicazione postuma della prof.ssa Elena Bertoncini Zúbková di cui Roberto Gaudioso è curatore e co-autore. Si tratta di una grammatica introduttiva alla lingua shona, con elementi contrastivi rispetto alla lingua swahili, appartenente alla medesima famiglia linguistica bantu. Il carattere contrastivo rende questo lavoro particolarmente adatto a studentesse e studenti di swahili. Il volume, con il contributo del co-autore, arricchisce la parte di grammatica contrastiva shona/swahili con un’introduzione storico-linguistica che ricostruisce contatti e scambi tra questi due mondi e situa le due lingue nell’ampia famiglia delle lingue bantu. Questa nutrita sezione introduttiva fa del libro un utile strumento per chi si accosta per la prima volta allo studio delle lingue bantu. Prima della descrizione morfologica della lingua shona, inoltre, il co-autore ha inserito un approfondimento sulle diverse riforme ortografiche shona, in modo da dare a chi legge gli strumenti per avvicinarsi ai testi stampati prima dell’ultima (terza) riforma ortografica del 1967. La descrizione grammaticale della lingua shona è basata soprattutto sugli aspetti morfologici della lingua, alcuni dei quali descritti nel dettaglio come il capitolo sulle classi nominali e quello sul verbo. La grammatica, infine, è arricchita da diverse tabelle riassuntive e da illustrazioni dello Zimbabwe antico e moderno, il principale paese in cui si parla la lingua shona. / [English]: This volume is a posthumous publication by Prof. Elena Bertoncini Zúbková of which Roberto Gaudioso is editor and co-author. It is an introductory grammar to the Shona language, with contrastive elements to Swahili, which belongs to the same Bantu language family. The contrastive nature makes this work particularly suitable for students of Swahili. The volume, with the contribution of the co-author, enriches the part of Shona/Swahili contrastive grammar with a historical-linguistic introduction that reconstructs contacts and exchanges between these two worlds and situates the two languages in the broad family of Bantu languages. This extensive introductory section makes the book a useful tool for those who are approaching the study of Bantu languages for the first time. Before the morphological description of the Shona language, the co-author has also included an in-depth study of the various Shona spelling reforms, in order to give the reader the tools to approach the texts printed before the last (third) spelling reform in 1967. The grammatical description of the Shona language is mainly based on the morphological aspects of the language, some of which are described in detail such as the chapter on nominal classes and the chapter on the verb. Finally, the grammar is enriched by several summary tables and illustrations of ancient and modern Zimbabwe, the main country in which the Shona language is spoken
Gendering the Diaspora: Zimbabwean Migrants in Britain
No full textThis article analyses the performative and lived realities of the Zimbabwean diaspora in Britain. The author explores the way in which both public and private spaces of the diaspora are important arenas in the construction and reconstruction of gendered identities. It is based on multisited ethnography, comprising 33 in-depth interviews and participant observation in four research sites, and draws upon concepts of diaspora and transnationalism as theoretical and analytical frameworks. The findings suggest that the challenges to patriarchal traditions in the hostland in terms of women's primary migrant status and financial autonomy, the different labour market experiences of men and women, and egalitarian laws have caused tensions and conflict within diaspora households. The article examines how men use religious and social spaces, which provide for the affirmation of more traditional roles and relations, as a form of public resistance to changes happening within the domestic sphere
Kitchen Island
No full textKitchen Island was commissioned for a group exhibition under the same title presented during Glasgow International 2024. It’s part interpretative, part expansive, part parallel, part peripheral, part responsive, part improvisation, part riff. It’s about the show, it’s not about the show. It’s pretty standard prose. It’s a collaged poetics? It’s not about my record collection. It’s an exhibition text. It’s a personal exegesis. It’s the ‘dirty secret’ that Eileen Myles reminds us of that ‘it’s of course all about me’. It was written following the invitation, from the artists, to ‘write from the same position’. The show didn’t exist at this stage, the title did. I took this position as kitchen island politics: of a/the kitchen island as a symbol of, or metaphor for, aspiration, class and gender politics. I took it as a symbol for conspicuous consumption mired by alienation, ambivalence and apathy. My Kitchen Island structures my own associations with these themes and somewhat writes with two seminal film works: Maya Deren’s 1943 film Meshes of the Afternoon and Martha Rosler’s 1975 parodic performance to camera, Semiotics of the Kitchen.
Kitchen Island, the exhibition, included new work and performance by Glasgow and Edinburgh-based artists Ariane Jackson, Shona Macnaughton, Casey Miller, Katie Orton and Chris Walker. It was presented 14-17 June 2024, St Ninians Church, Albert Drive, Glasgo
A Critical Appreciation of Victimhood in Mungoshi’s Shona Novels
No full textThe paper is a deliberate problematisation of the study of Mungoshi’s Shona literature with a view to initiate new critical perspectives absent in current Shona critical scholarship. The author problematises the study of the author’s novels by advancing the argument that while the author deals with the tragedy engendered largely by a crisis of identity, his novels are also in a similar crisis of identity. This crisis manifests itself through the writer’s undeviating obsession with victimhood. It appears as if Mungoshi has become eloquent in visualising Shona experiential exigencies through the lenses of victimhood. However, the paper argues that such a position is not only culturally debilitating, but also constitutes a very narrow perspective of viewing family and cultural realities. The paper also problematises Mungoshi’s Shona literature by transcending the arguments raised by pioneer critics who include George Kahari (1990) and Emmanuel Mudhliwa Chiwome (1996) who tended to confine their analysis to the crisis of identity triggered by the clash between Shona and Western culture that the writer deals with. Their criticism is, therefore, celebrator
Death and After-life Rituals in the eyes of the Shona : Dialogue with Shona Customs in the Quest for Authentic Inculturation
No full textZugl.: Bayreuth, Univ., Diss., 2011
Canisius Mwandayi. Loch, Irene ; Kügler, Joachim (Textformatierung)This volume is a passed PhD thesis handed at Universität Bayreuth, Germany. The author examines burial customs and rituals among the Shona and sees a definite pattern comparable to the Judeo-Christian practices. He contends that these practices among the Shona were a preparation for the Gospel of Christ or ‘preparatio evangelica’ as Vatican II would identify this phenomenon. He laments the fact that the early Missionaries did not make full use of this preparation which would have laid the foundation for the fullness of the Gospel message they brought. On the contrary, some Missionaries sought to destroy the foundation instead of building on it, a temptation which lingers to this day, given the different conceptions of these customs and rituals by different theologians and evangelizers. The author argues strongly and with conviction in favour of the foundation for Christian evangelization, which tradition has already put in place, as embodied in the death and after life rituals among the Shona. Given the controversy concerning the rituals among some, the author assumes a Christ-like approach, who asks his disciples, ‘Who do you say I am’ (Mk.8:29). Individuals and communities will respond to this question in unique ways and should not be coerced. Jesus does not coerce his disciples but invites them to respond in love. He leaves them to mature in the faith until he can challenge Peter saying, ‘Do you love me more than these?’ (Jn.21:15). The author embarks on a similar loving process of affirmation and positive critical analysis in the hope that the past will help propel the Shona into the present and future of Christ. The author charts a new and interesting way of reading Scripture in the light of the Shona death and after life rituals.Der Band analysiert die Probleme im Umfeld der Integration von Schona-Bestattungstraditionen in christliche Kirchen, inbesondere in die katholische Kirche in Simbabwe
Terms of address in Shona : a sociolinguistic approach
No full textTerms of address in Shona derive from a multiplicity of sources, both modern and traditional. Proper names, nicknames, titles, pronouns and prefixes are commonly used. Emphasis is on the discussion of the type of names the Shona utilize, the contexts in which they are applied, their semantics and the circumstances that motivate their creation. The speaker and the addressee's relationship, cognitive, historical and ideological reality, determine the choice of names and other address variants. The choices also reflect very broad categories of social meaning. Address forms can, therefore, be screens upon which the Shona project their attitudes towards different aspects of their life. The author shows that the use of address forms and cultural values are closely interrelated. This article gives a socio-linguistic account of the synchronic patterns and diachronic change in address terms. Shifts over time in addressing patterns may provide a powerful indicator of profound societal shifts
Victimhood in Mungoshi's Shona Novels: A Critical Study.
No full textThe paper is a deliberate problematisation of the study of Mungoshi’s Shona
literature with a view to initiate new critical perspectives absent in current Shona
critical scholarship. We problematise the study of the author’s novels by advancing
the argument that, while the author deals with the tragedy engendered largely by a
crisis of identity, his novels are also in a similar crisis of identity. This crisis of
identity manifests itself through the writer’s undeviating obsession with victimhood.
It appears as if Mungoshi has become eloquent in visualising Shona experiential
exigencies through the lenses of victimhood. However, we argue that such a position
is not only culturally debilitating, it also constitutes a very narrow perspective of
viewing family and cultural realities. We also problematise Mungoshi’s Shona
literature by transcending the arguments raised by pioneer critics who include
George Kahari and Emmanuel Mudhliwa Chiwome who tended to confine their
analysis to the crisis of identity triggered by the clash between Shona and Western
culture that the writer deals with. Their criticism is, therefore, celebratory
Zimbabwean stone sculpture: The invention of a Shona tradition
No full text"This thesis details how Zimbabwean stone sculpture has been creatively conceived in terms of a ""tribal"" renaissance by the first director of the National Gallery in Harare, Zimbabwe, Frank McEwen. Despite the complexity belying the movement's history, McEwen initiated the Shona sculpture discourse through drawing upon theories about artistic revivals developed by French art historian Henri Focillon as well as the pedagogical techniques of the nineteenth century symbolist painter Gustave Moreau. In doing so, McEwen presented the works created during his tenure (1957-1973) as the reemergence of an ancient Shona tradition. He heralded Shona sculpture as a cultural revival that would stimulate a return to the spiritual in modern European art which he construed as hopelessly trivialized. Through a critical analysis of his writings, the dissertation reveals the complexity subsumed in the construction of a tradition rooted in essentialist conceptualizations of ethnicity and history and heavily inflected by early modernist and symbolist ideas of art as sacred."In contrast to the McEwen's widely accepted conceptualization that there have been no foreign influences on this tradition, the dissertation demonstrates African influences other than Shona. In addition to revealing these influences and the links to early modern European art through McEwen's inspirational role, the dissertation describes how the tradition is linked to the British Arts and Crafts Movement through the life-works of Canon Edward Paterson, an Anglican missionary who trained the first modern Zimbabwean stone sculptors."The dissertation situates Shona sculpture in a specific relation to the study of tourist art as Frank McEwen defined it to be the unique historical antithesis of tourist art--or, as he termed it, ""airport"" art. Hence this study details an ongoing debate over the need to differentiate ""real"" from ""fake"" Shona sculpture. Beyond problematizing the issue of authenticity, the thesis concludes that while many artists do perceive their works to be expressive of Shona culture, others struggle to transcend the ethnic label so as to be accepted in the modern art world as contemporary international artists in their own right."Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T14:22:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Epenthesis, mutation, and structure preservation in the Shona causative
No full textIn Shona (Bantu: Zimbabwe), the causative fonn of a verb is fonned in one of two ways: either with the suffix -is-/-es- or by changing the root final consonant to a corresponding coronal continuant. The author argues for an analysis in which both fonns are derived from a common underlying suffix /sl. The suffixal fonn is the result of an independently motivated process of epenthesis. The mutation, on the other hand, comes about by fusion of the /s/ with the preceding consonant. This fusion leads in some cases to feature combinations disallowed in Shona. The effects of mutation in these cases can be captured exploiting an active version of Kiparsky's Structure Preservation in tenns of "persistent rules"
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