UID:
almahu_9949616149002882
Format:
1 online resource (320 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780821447819
Series Statement:
New African Histories Series
Content:
Based on extensive archival research, this intellectual history of Standard Swahili--a dialect of the Swahili language written in the Latin alphabet--argues that attention to the intertwined processes of codification from 1864 to 1964 lends new perspectives on history, colonialism, time, and cultural representation in East Africa and beyond.
Note:
Cover Page -- New African Histories -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1: "Note-Books and Slowly Accumulating Vocabularies" -- 2: Msimulizi and the Cultivation of the Upelekwa -- 3: German Zeit and Swahili Time -- 4: Interlocutors in Interterritorial Codification -- 5: The East African Literature Bureau: Creating Creativity in Standard Swahili -- 6: Rumblings of Unanticipated Demand -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Robinson, Morgan J. A Language for the World Athens, OH : Ohio University Press,c2022 ISBN 9780821424957
Language:
English
Keywords:
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