Institutions of the University of Bayreuth
Professor Literatures in African Languages - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Clarissa Vierke

Kresse, Kai ; Vierke, Clarissa:
Swahili language and literature as resources for Indian Ocean studies.
In: History Compass. Vol. 20 (2022) Issue 7 . - e12725.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15495/EPub_UBT_00006697

Adjirakor, Nikitta:
Fieldwork as Decolonising African Literary Studies : Researching Tanzanian Hip-hop and Spoken Word Poetry as a Ghanaian.
ed.: Adjirakor, Nikitta ; Ajayi, Oladapo Opeyemi ; Diman, Hanza ; Yuan, Mingqing
Bayreuth : Institute of African Studies, 2021 . - (University of Bayreuth African Studies Working Papers ; 27 )
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15495/EPub_UBT_00005680

Adjirakor, Nikitta:
Represent 255 : language, style and the construction of identity in Tanzanian English hip-hop.
In: Linguistics Vanguard. Vol. 6 (2020) Issue S4 . - 20190042.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2019-0042

Adjirakor, Nikitta:
Constructing the African City Through Hip-hop in “Nai Ni Ya Who?” by Muthoni the Drummer Queen.
In: Research in African Literatures. Vol. 48 (2017) Issue 1 . - pp. 116-134.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.48.1.08

Vierke, Clarissa ; Veit-Wild, Flora:
Introduction : Digging into Language.
In: Research in African Literatures. Vol. 48 (2017) Issue 1 . - pp. 9-18.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.48.1.01

Kandagor, Mosol ; Ogechi, Nathan O. ; Vierke, Clarissa:
Lugha na fasihi katika karne ya ishirini na moja : kwa heshima ya marehemu Profesa Naoma Luchera Shitemi.
Eldoret, Kenya : Moi University Press , 2017

Vierke, Clarissa:
The Making of the ‘Classical’ Utenzi : a Consideration of the Early Editorial History of Tenzi in the 19th and 20th Century.
In: Kandagor, Mosol ; Ogechi, Nathan O. ; Vierke, Clarissa (ed.): Lugha na fasihi katika karne ya ishirini na moja : kwa heshima ya marehemu Profesa Naoma Luchera Shitemi. - Eldoret, Kenya : Moi University Press, 2017 . - pp. 113-130

Raia, Annachiara:
A Mosaic of Scripts : Arabic Script in Africa from a comparative perspective.
In: Quaderni di Studi Arabi. Vol. N.S. 12 (2017) . - pp. 207-218.

Vierke, Clarissa:
Poetic Links across the Ocean : On Poetic ‘Translation’ as Mimetic Practice at the Swahili Coast.
In: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Vol. 37 (2017) Issue 2 . - pp. 321-335.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-4132941

Reading Closely : Investigating Textuality in Afrophone Literatures.
ed.: Vierke, Clarissa ; Veit-Wild, Flora
Research in African Literatures. Vol. 48 (2017) Issue 1 .

Vierke, Clarissa:
"What Is There In My Speaking" : Re-Explorations of Language in Abdilatif Abdalla's Anthology of Prison Poetry, Sauti Ya Dhiki.
In: Research in African Literatures. Vol. 48 (2017) Issue 1 . - pp. 135-157.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.48.1.09

Vierke, Clarissa ; Greven, Katharina:
Critical Visions of the Future in Swahili Fiction.
In: Vierke, Clarissa ; Greven, Katharina (ed.): Dunia Yao - Utopia/Dystopia in Swahili Fiction : in Honour of Said A. M. Khamis. - Köln : Köppe, 2016 . - pp. 7-25 . - (Verbal Art and Documentary Literature in African Languages ; 36 )

Dunia Yao - Utopia/Dystopia in Swahili Fiction : in honour of Said A. M. Khamis.
ed.: Vierke, Clarissa ; Greven, Katharina
Köln : Köppe , 2016 . - (Verbal Art and Documentary Literature in African Languages ; 36 )

Vierke, Clarissa:
From across the Ocean : Considering Travelling Literary figurations as Part of Swahili Intellectual History.
In: Journal of African Cultural Studies. Vol. 28 (2016) Issue 2 . - pp. 225-240.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2015.1053800

Raia, Annachiara:
Innesti culturali : La riscrittura creativa della storia di Yusuf in poesia Swahili.
In: Smerilliana. Vol. 19 (2016) . - pp. 425-454.

Vierke, Clarissa:
The ‘Unhomely’ City : a Literary Figuration in Swahili Dystopian Literature.
In: Vierke, Clarissa ; Greven, Katharina (ed.): Dunia Yao - Utopia/Dystopia in Swahili Fiction : in Honour of Said A. M. Khamis. - Cologne : Köppe, 2016 . - pp. 75-91 . - (Verbal Art and Documentary Literature in African Languages ; 36 )

Vierke, Clarissa:
Comparing the Incomparable? on the poetic use of language in Swahili Hip-Hop and "Classical" Swahili Poetry.
In: Diegner, Lutz ; Schulze-Engler, Frank (ed.): Habari ya English? What about Kiswahili? : East Africa as a Literary and Linguistic Contact Zone. - Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2015 . - p. 81 . - (Matatu ; 46 )

Vierke, Clarissa:
Some Remarks on Poetic Aspects of Sheng.
In: Nassenstein, Nico ; Hollington, Andrea (ed.): Youth language practices in Africa and beyond. - Berlin : De Gruyter, 2015 . - pp. 227-255 . - (Contributions to the Sociology of Language ; 105 )

Vierke, Clarissa:
Akhi patia kalamu : Writing Swahili Poetry in Arabic Script.
In: Mumin, Meikal ; Versteegh, Kees (ed.): Arabic Script in Africa : studies in the use of a writing system. - Leiden : Brill, 2014 . - pp. 319-342 . - (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics ; 71 )

Vierke, Clarissa:
"Im Gebälk die Fledermäuse" : Figurationen der Vergänglichkeit und der Täuschung in der klassischen Swahili-Dichtung.
In: Vögele, Hannelore ; Reuster-Jahn, Uta ; Kastenholz, Raimund ; Diegner, Lutz (ed.): From the Tana River to Lake Chad : research in african oratures and literatures ; in memoriam Thomas Geider. - Köln : Köppe, 2014 . - pp. 285-309 . - (Mainzer Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung ; 36 )

Raia, Annachiara:
Remarks on Swahili manuscripts in Arabic script : layout and orthography of the Utendi wa Yusuf.
In: Kraska-Szlenk, Iwona ; Wójtowicz, Beata (ed.): Current research in African studies : papers in honour of Mwalimu Dr. Eugeniusz Rzewuski. - Warsaw : Elipsa, 2014

Vierke, Clarissa:
Review of: Seydou, Christiane (Hrsg.): La poésie mystique peule du Mali : Tradition Orale. Paris, 2008.
In: Journal of Qur'anic Studies. Vol. 15 (2014) Issue 3 . - pp. 286-292.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/jqs.2013.0124

Vierke, Clarissa:
Zur Forschungsgeschichte der deutschen Afrikanistik, ihre Anfänge und Ausrichtung, am Beispiel der Swahili-Forschung.
In: Espagne, Michel ; Rabault-Feuerhahn, Pascale ; Simo, David (ed.): Afrikanische Deutschland-Studien und deutsche Afrikanistik. - Würzburg : Königshausen und Neumann, 2014 . - pp. 73-92

Talento, Serena:
Of Presences/Absences, Identity and Power : The Ideological Role of Translation into Swahili during Late Pre-colonial and Early Colonial Times.
In: Swahili-Forum. Vol. 20 (2013) . - pp. 85-101.

Vierke, Clarissa:
Préface : L'Histoire de la langue Swahili de David Massamba dans l'histoire de la recherche et dans le contexte national.
transl.: Devenne, François
In: Massamba, David (ed.): Histoire de la langue Swahili : de 50 à 1500 après J.-C. - Paris : Karthala, 2013 . - pp. 5-16

Vierke, Clarissa:
Préface: Localiser Histoire du Swahili de David Massamba dans le contexte des recherches et dans le discours sur l’identité nationale (Übersetzung vom Englischen ins Französische von Alain Ricard).
In: Histoire de la langue swahili : de 50 à 1500 après J.-C. / David Massamba ; traduit du swahili par François Devenne. - Paris , 2013

Vierke, Clarissa:
Mafumbo : Considering the Functions of Metaphorical Speech in Swahili Contexts.
In: Marlo, Michael R. ; Adams, Nikki B. ; Green, Christopher R. ; Morrison, Michelle ; Purvis, Tristan M. (ed.): Selected Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference on African Linguistics : African languages in context. - Somerville : Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 2012 . - pp. 278-290

Vierke, Clarissa:
On the poetics of the Utendi : a critical edition of the nineteenth-century Swahili poem "Utendi wa Haudaji" together with a stylistic analysis.
Zürich : Lit , 2011 . - (Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung ; 50 )
( Doctoral thesis, 2010 , Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies - BIGSAS)

Vierke, Clarissa:
On the Poetics of the Utendi : A Critical Edition of the Nineteenth-Century Swahilin Poem "Utendi wa Haudaji" together with a Stylistic Analysis.
Berlin : LIT , 2011 . - XVIII, 704 p. - (Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung ; 50 )

Speech Acts and Speech Events in African Languages.
ed.: Sommer, Gabriele ; Vierke, Clarissa
Köln : Köppe , 2011 . - (Topics in Interdisciplinary African Studies ; 23 )

Vierke, Clarissa ; Sommer, Gabriele:
Speech Acts and Speech Events in African Languages.
In: Sommer, Gabriele ; Vierke, Clarissa (ed.): Speech Acts and Speech Events in African Languages. - Köln : Köppe, 2011 . - pp. 11-40 . - (Topics in Interdisciplinary African Studies ; 23 )

Vierke, Clarissa:
Between the Lines : Life and Work of the Lamuan Artist and Cultural Broker Muhamadi Kijuma.
In: Miehe, Gudrun ; Vierke, Clarissa (ed.): Muhamadi Kijuma : Texts from the Dammann Papers and other Collections. - Köln : Köppe, 2010 . - pp. 41-62 . - (Archiv afrikanistischer Manuskripte ; 9 )

Miehe, Gudrun ; Vierke, Clarissa:
Muhamadi Kijuma : texts from the Dammann papers and other collections.
Köln : Köppe , 2010 . - 532 p. - (Archiv afrikanistischer Manuskripte ; 9 )

Vierke, Clarissa:
Johann L. Krapf : His Life and Work in Context.
In: Vierke, Clarissa (ed.): Johann Ludwig Krapf : The Life and Work of a Missionary and Scholar-Traveller in Nineteenth-Century East Africa ; Proceedings of the Workshop on Life and Work of Johann Ludwig Krapf, Mombasa, September 11, 2007. - Nairobi : Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, 2009 . - pp. 28-49

Johann Ludwig Krapf : The Life and Work of a Missionary and Scholar-Traveller in Nineteenth-Century East Africa ; Proceedings of the Workshop on Life and Work of Johann Ludwig Krapf, Mombasa, September 11, 2007.
ed.: Vierke, Clarissa
Nairobi : Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany , 2009

Review:

Lenoble-Barth, Annie. 2009. In: Histoire & Missions Chrétiennes, 11: 190-191

Nabahany, Ahmed S.:
Utenzi wa Mapisi ya Johann Ludwig Krapf wa Ujerumani : Poem about the Life of Johann Ludwig Krapf from Germany.
transl.: Vierke, Clarissa
In: Vierke, Clarissa (ed.): Johann Ludwig Krapf : The Life and Work of a Missionary and Scholar-Traveller in Nineteenth-Century East Africa ; Proceedings of the Workshop on Life and Work of Johann Ludwig Krapf, Mombasa, September 11, 2007. - Nairobi : Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, 2009 . - pp. 14-26

Vierke, Clarissa:
"Words do neither take roots not bear fruits in our country" : Johann Ludwig Krapf's Role as Pioneer Grammarian of Swahili.
In: Vierke, Clarissa (ed.): Johann Ludwig Krapf : The Life and Work of a Missionary and Scholar-Traveller in Nineteenth-Century East Africa ; Proceedings of the Workshop on Life and Work of Johann Ludwig Krapf, Mombasa, September 11, 2007. - Nairobi : Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, 2009 . - pp. 142-156

Dittemer, Clarissa:
Review of: Kastenholz, Raimund ; Storch, Anne (Hrsg.): Sprache und Wissen in Afrika : Beiträge zum 15. Afrikanistentag, Frankfurt am Main und Mainz, 30.September - 2. Oktober 2002. Köln, 2004.
In: Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. Vol. 28 (2007) Issue 1 . - pp. 87-90.

Reuster-Jahn, Uta:
Let's go party! : Discourse and selfportayal in the Bongo-Fleva song Mikasi.
In: Swahili-Forum. Vol. 14 (2007) . - pp. 225-244.

Vierke, Clarissa:
Of Plants and Women : A Working Edition of two Swahili Plant Poems.
In: Swahili-Forum. Vol. 14 (2007) . - pp. 27-80.

Dittemer, Clarissa ; Ibriszimow, Dymitr ; Brunk, Karsten:
Les pronoms en tchadique : vue d’ensemble.
In: Ibriszimow, Dymitr ; Segerer, Guillaume (ed.): Systèmes de marques personnelles en Afrique. - Paris : Peeters, 2007 . - pp. 55-96 . - (Collection Afrique et Langage ; 8 )

Dittemer, Clarissa:
Inkishafi kwa mara nyingine : Erste Schritte zu einer neuen Textedition.
In: Winkelmann, Kerstin ; Ibriszimow, Dymitr (ed.): Zwischen Bantu und Burkina : Festschrift für Gudrun Miehe zum 65. Geburtstag. - Köln : Köppe, 2006 . - pp. 23-44

Dittemer, Clarissa:
Wasifu wa Muhamadi Kijuma : Mshairi kutoka Lamu.
In: Chonjo. Vol. 1 (2006) . - pp. 12-16.

Liyongo songs : poems attributed to Fumo Liyongo.
ed.: Miehe, Gudrun ; Abdalla, Abdilatif ; Nassir Juma Bhalo, Ahmad ; Nabahany, Ahmed S. ; Baschiera, Angelica ; Dittemer, Clarissa ; Topan, Farouk ; Abdulaziz, Mohamed H. ; Khamis, Said A. M. ; Omar, Yahya Ali ; Fadhil Al-Bakary, Zeina Mahmoud
Köln : Köppe , 2004 . - VIII, 230 p. - (Archiv afrikanistischer Manuskripte ; 7 )