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Vierke, Clarissa:
“Born on the Island” : Situating Ustadh Mau’s Poetic Practice in Context.
In: Raia, Annachiara ; Vierke, Clarissa
(Hrsg.):
In This Fragile World : Swahili Poetry of Commitment by Ustadh Mahmoud Mau. -
Leiden
: Brill
,
2023
. - S. 41-68
. - (Islam in Africa
; 25
)
ISBN 978-90-04-52571-9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004525726_005
Abstract
The chapter “Born on the Island: Situating Ustadh Mau’s Poetry in the Context” by Clarissa Vierke characterizes the relation between Ustadh Mau and Lamu, in three ways: Firstly, it is the context his poetry reacts to: Ustadh Mau writes his poetry particularly to guide his community facing more and more social, political and economic challenges and tensions in the present. Secondly, it shows how Lamu’s intellectual tradition of writing poetry as a way to reach wider Muslim audiences, largely shaped by the Sufi brotherhood of the Alawiyya, has made an impact on him—as it had also done on his grandfather and father. His family history and his own biography are much entangled with the local Sufi tradition as well as wider Indian Ocean links, as the chapter shows. However, as the contribution underlines, his poetic practice does not merely emphasize continuity with a great poetic tradition, Ustadh Mau has also developed his own critical, modernist stance, significantly diverting from previous ideals. Thirdly, the chapter zooms in on Ustadh Mau’s poetics putting an emphasis on Lamu as a poetic locus, which does not only provide him with topics to write on and an audience to speak to, but also addresses his senses and gives him the imagery, characters, the rhythm and a sensitive language to write with. It is the figurative language, as the chapter argues drawing on Blumenberg’s exploration of metaphorical language as part of intellectual history, that is deeply linked with the poem’s capacity to captivate its audience, but also to produce its own kind of reflection.
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| Publikationsform: | Aufsatz in einem Buch |
|---|---|
| Begutachteter Beitrag: | Ja |
| Institutionen der Universität: | Fakultäten > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät > Professur Literaturen in afrikanischen Sprachen > Professur Literaturen in Afrikanischen Sprachen - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Clarissa Vierke |
| Titel an der UBT entstanden: | Ja |
| Themengebiete aus DDC: | 400 Sprache > 490 Andere Sprachen 800 Literatur > 800 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft 800 Literatur > 890 Andere Literaturen |
| Eingestellt am: | 24 Jul 2024 09:02 |
| Letzte Änderung: | 24 Jul 2024 09:07 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/90056 |