Biography of the Indian Ocean

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Imagined, Embodied and Experiential Cartographies

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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This book, with a focus on the East African coast and especially on the Kenyan coast, puts into conversation cross-generic texts – the historical novel, the Indian Ocean novel, oral history, oral testimony, and oral poetry – in two main languages – English and Kiswahili – with the aim of challenging, expanding and complementing the existing knowledge archive on Indian Ocean histories and its ideations on the Kenyan coast. It especially pays attention to the local forms of expression that articulate the Indian Ocean world from personal, local and intimate perspectives. The intimate, personal and local maps of the sea that emerge from this set of texts are derived from local articulations of the sea, informed by musings by seafarers who include divers, sailors, fishers and beach operators.The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literary and cultural studies, African studies and Indian Ocean studies.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-03-13
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieTransdisciplinary Souths
Antal sidor180
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781041198475

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Introduction - Refiguring Indian Ocean Epistemological Cartographies Critical Ocean StudiesOral SourcesChapter OutlinesChapter 1 - Historical Sources and the Writing of Fiction in Valerie Cuthbert's The Great Siege of Fort JesusHistory and Fiction; History as NarrativePortuguese Historiography of the Indian Ocean WorldPortuguese-Oriented Histories of the Kenyan Coast: Cuthbert's SourcesReproduction of the Colonial Archive: Imported biases in Cuthbert's novelChapter 2 - Subverting Eurocentric Histories of the Swahili Coast in the 19th CenturyDistanced Affinities and Proximate Tensions: Oral and biographical reflections on RebmannHumanizing the Demonized: Subverting Eurocentric histories of the Swahili coastChapter 3 - Re-figuring the Colonial Archive: Oral Historiographies of Fort Jesus in MombasaFort Jesus, a Portuguese Fortress: The official oral history of Fort JesusNgomeni, not Fort Jesus: A Digo home, not a Portuguese fortressOf Disruptions and Erasures: A comparative reading of the oral histories of Fort JesusChapter 4 - From Surface to Depth: Material and Multidimensional Perspectives of the Indian OceanLateral Connections and the Economic Dimension of the SeaUnderwater Perspectives and the Spiritual Dimension of the SeaChapter 5 - A Dead and Dying Sea: The Ecological Dimension of the Indian Ocean on the Kenyan CoastSummoning Local Art Forms: Ecological functions of Swahili oral poetryGeneration Eyewitnesses: Fishers' articulation of a dead and dying seaChapter 6 - A Biography of the Indian Ocean: Tracing alternative sea maps in Yvonne Owuor's The Dragonfly SeaSensuous Maps of the Indian OceanOwuor's Ecocritical and Political Project in The DragonflyConclusion - Notes on Expaning Epistemic TerritoriesReferences