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

• Superior document: African social studies series ; v. 37
• TeilnehmendeR: Declich, Francesca.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Koninklijke Brill NV.; c2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: African Social Studies Series 37.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 321 pages).

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. Contributors are: Katrin Bromber, Gerard van de Bruinhorst, Francesca Declich, Rebecca Gearhart Mafazy, Linda Giles, Ida Hadjivayanis, Mohamed Kassim, Kjersti Larsen, Mohamed Saleh, Maria Suriano, Sandra Vianello.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Transliteration, Orthography and Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Translocal Relations across the Indian Ocean / Francesca Declich -- Translocality in the Past -- Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Brava / 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 -- Vectors (Carriers) of Translocality -- Sasa, pote, majeshi yetu duniani / Katrin Bromber -- Translocality, Texts and Discourses / Gerard C. van de Bruinhorst* -- Reflections (Representations) of Translocal Connections -- Local Ideas of Fashion and Translocal Connections / Maria Suriano -- Translocal Interconnections within the Swahili Spirit World / Linda Giles -- Experiencing Translocality: Translocality from the Bottom – Translocality in Daily Experience -- Translocal Experiences and Intersecting Mobilities / Kjersti Larsen -- Skype, Facebook, and Chat Rooms / Rebecca Gearhart Mafazy -- Integration and Identity of Swahili Speakers in England / Ida Hadjivayanis -- Swahili Elites and the Concept of Long-Distance Nationalism within the Diaspora / Mohamed Ahmed Saleh.