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 Ocea...

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.