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- Title
Poetic Links across the Ocean: On Poetic Translation as Mimetic Practice at the Swahili Coast.
- Authors
Vierke, Clarissa
- Abstract
The article offers the author's insights on the need to explore the diffusion of non-European literature in the study of the Swahili Coast. Topics discussed include the importance of the texts on creating transoceanic links, the nature of aesthetics of the oceans literary relations, and the exploration of the Swahili tendi poems and the Arabic historiographic texts translation.
- Subjects
INDIAN Ocean; SWAHILI literature; INDIAN Ocean studies; HISTORIOGRAPHY; TRANSLATING &; interpreting; HISTORY
- Publication
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, & the Middle East, 2017, Vol 37, Issue 2, p321
- ISSN
1089-201X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1215/1089201x-4132941