- Titel
- Manukato ya kimanga: ‘Tarabizuna’ katika ushairi wa Kiswahili wa karne ya 19 na 20
- Zitierfähige Url:
- https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-806175
- Quellenangabe
- Swahili Forum - 29.2022
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Jahrgang: 29
Seiten: 95-113
ISSN: 1614-2373 - Abstract (EN)
- Writing about the evidence of the Western Indian Ocean connections in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries have taken a new turn following manifestation of the perfumery customs in the works of Liyongo, Mwanakupona, Sikujua, Himidi, Abdalla and others who are classical celebratory Swahili poets and yet they have evoked the perfumery trope in their works as part of the adapted oriental customs in the Swahili coastal littoral. Why is the perfumery trope used as an emblematic entity of influence and contact between Asia, Arabs and African Swahili? This article argues that the motif of perfume in those Swahili poems represents the study of cultural hybridity around the Western Indian Ocean rim. This study gives opportunity for scholars to examine how the perfumery trope symbolizes social issues, osmology (power and marginality), marital relations, identity, and ornamentation customs.
- Freie Schlagwörter (EN)
- Swahili, poetry, poems, perfume
- Klassifikation (DDC)
- 496
- Herausgeber (Institution)
- Universität Leipzig
- Version / Begutachtungsstatus
- publizierte Version / Verlagsversion
- URN Qucosa
- urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-806175
- Veröffentlichungsdatum Qucosa
- 12.09.2022
- Dokumenttyp
- Artikel
- Sprache des Dokumentes
- Swahili
- Lizenz / Rechtehinweis
