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Somalia has been called 'a nation of poets.' This volume presents the most universal of Somali poetry in English translation.
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Page : 136 pages
File Size : 44,25 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Somali poetry
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Somalia has been called 'a nation of poets.' This volume presents the most universal of Somali poetry in English translation.
Author : B. W. Andrzejewski
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,55 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Somali poetry
ISBN :
Author : John William Johnson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 25,42 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781874209812
This is a completely new edition of the only scholarly work on the poetry of popular and mass culture among a people who are renowned for their passion for poetry. Johnson traces the heello movement from its origins as a youth culture which in its early days was concerned with themes of love and pleasure. It later became the medium for freedom songs in the preindependence period, for the expression of modern political ideas, political protest, rallying songs and social comment, many examples of which are cited in this volume. Heello became the most dynamic form of Somali poetry in this century. This edition uses modern Somali script.
Author : Ladan Osman
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 27,46 MB
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0803278594
Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony asks: Whose testimony is valid? Whose testimony is worth recording? Osman’s speakers, who are almost always women, assert and reassert in an attempt to establish authority, often through persistent questioning. Specters of race, displacement, and colonialism are often present in her work, providing momentum for speakers to reach beyond their primary, apparent dimensions and better communicate. The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony is about love and longing, divorce, distilled desire, and all the ways we injure ourselves and one another.
Author : Judith Gardner
Publisher : CIIR
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,46 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780745322087
Explores the experiences of women in Somalia and how they have survived the trauma of war.
Author : Janice Hamilton
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 18,27 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0822565862
Describes the geography, climate, wildlife, natural resources, history, politics, culture, economy, and government of Somalia.
Author : Ruth Finnegan
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,95 MB
Release : 2018-05-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1725239604
This classic study is an introduction to "oral poetry," a broad subject which Ruth Finnegan interprets as ranging from American folksongs, Eskimo lyrics, and modern popular songs to medieval oral literature, the heroic poems of Homer, and recent epic compositions in Asia or the Pacific. The book employs a broad comparative perspective and considers oral poetry from Africa, Asia, and Oceania as well as Europe and America. The results of Finnegan's vast research illuminate and suggest fresh conclusions to many current controversies: the nature of oral tradition and oral composition; the notion of a special oral style; possible connection between types of poetry and types of society; the differences between oral and written communication; and the role of poets in non-literate societies. Drawing on insights from anthropology and literary scholarship, Oral Poetry attempts to create a greater appreciation of the literary aspects of this fascinating form of poetry. Finnegan quotes extensively from a wide variety of sources, mainly in translation. The discussion is presented in non-technical language and will be of interest not only to sociologists and social anthropologists, but also to all those interested in comparative literature and in folk poetry from cultures around the world. The re-issue of this text, widely used in folklore, anthropology, and comparative literature courses, comes at an appropriate juncture in interdisciplinary scholarship, which is witnessing the breakdown of traditional disciplinary boundaries and an increase in the comparative study of oral poetry. For this volume Ruth Finnegan has provided a new foreword relating the text to more recent developments.
Author : Amina Jama
Publisher : Flap Pamphlet
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 11,4 MB
Release : 2019-12-19
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781905233571
A Warning to the House That Holds Me builds on the milestones and mythology of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo to perform a deeply personal act of reclaiming power. Drawing on a long tradition of Somali storytelling, these poems achieve the complex balance of being as conversational as they are crafted.
Author : John Saeed
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,28 MB
Release : 1999-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027283079
Somali is spoken by more than nine million people in the Horn of Africa and by expatriate communities in the Middle East, Europe and North America. It is the official language of Somalia and an important regional language in Ethiopia and Kenya. As a Cushitic language Somali is part of the great Afroasiatic language family whose other branches include Semitic, Berber, Chadic and Ancient Egyptian. This book provides a comprehensive description of the grammar of the language that will be of interest to non-specialists and linguists interested in typology and language comparison. The author’s accessible investigation of the phonology, morphology, syntax and discourse structure allows the reader a clear view of the linguistic character of Somali and, through Somali, of a Cushitic language. A further important feature of the book is its use of authentic data from a range of sources, including prose, poetry and proverbs.
Author : Axmed Cali Abokor
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 26,91 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Camels
ISBN : 9789171062697