Translocal connections across the Indian Ocean
Subtitle: Swahili speaking networks on the move
By: edited by Francesca Declich
Series: African Social Studies Series -- volume 37; African social studies series -- v. 37.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Leiden, The Netherlands
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9789004354074
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Swahili-speaking peoples; History
Description: The book describes the worlds where Swahili is spoken as multi-centred contexts that cannot be thought of as located in a specific coastal area of Kenya or Tanzania. The articles presented discuss a range of geographical areas where Swahili is spoken, from Somalia to Mozambique along the Indian Ocean, in Europe and the US. In an attempt to de-essentialize the concepts of translocality and cosmopolitanism, the emphasis of the book is on translocality as experienced by different social strata and by gender and cosmopolitanism as an acquired attitude.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.