- AutorIn
- Adam Rodgers Johns
- Titel
- The enigmatic black bird’s poem and its performance in William Mkufya’s Ziraili na Zirani
- Zitierfähige Url:
- https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-220436
- Quellenangabe
- Swahili-Forum - 23.2016
- Quellenangabe
- Swahili Forum 23 (2016), S. 64-75
- Abstract (EN)
- This paper applies a post-structuralist literary framework when looking at the philosophical implications of William’s Mkufya’s novel Ziraili na Zirani. The analysis focuses on a free-verse poem per-formed by a black bird in hell. Moreover, there is a focus on the different genre forms at play, such as free-verse poetry and the novel, and an acknowledgement that an understanding of the text relies upon a consideration of these different genre conventions. Ultimately the paper shows how a reading of the text as it is presented in the novel, as a performance, demonstrates a realisation of the different genre conventions at play, thus taking their significance onto a different plain of analysis. Furthermore, attention is drawn to the application of a post-structuralist framework and the various contributions this theoretical model can make to a reading of the poem, notably an emphasis on the resistance to fixed meaning in favour of instability. This results in an exposition of the relevance of a post-structuralist literary framework to Mkufya’s critical reflection upon epistemology as it is portrayed in the black bird’s enigmatic performance, and the novel as a whole.
- Freie Schlagwörter (DE)
- Swahili, Swahili Literatur, Post-Strukturalismus, Performanz, Epistemologie
- Freie Schlagwörter (EN)
- Swahili, Swahili Literature, post-structuralism, performance, epistemology
- Klassifikation (DDC)
- 496
- Normschlagwörter (GND)
- Swahili, Swahili Literatur, Post-Strukturalismus, Performanz, Epistemologie
- Herausgeber (Institution)
- School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
- Universität Leipzig
- URN Qucosa
- urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-220436
- Veröffentlichungsdatum Qucosa
- 10.03.2017
- Dokumenttyp
- Artikel
- Sprache des Dokumentes
- Englisch