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Title The woman hidden in the Diwani ya Mnyampala
Full text http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01052772; http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/01/05/27/72/PDF/The_woman_hidden_in_the_Diwani_ya_Mnyampala.pdf; http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/01/05/27/72/IMG/mangwela1.jpg; http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/01/05/27/72/IMG/mangwela3.jpg; http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/01/05/27/72/IMG/mangwela2.jpg; http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/01/05/27/72/IMG/mangwela4.jpg; http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/01/05/27/72/ANNEX/mangwela5.jpg
Date 2014
Author(s) Roy, Mathieu; Reed, Warren
Abstract Mathias E. Mnyampala (1917-1969) was a great Tanzanian poet, essayist and judge who wrote in Kiswahili more than 25 books. It is a tradition in the Kiswahili poetry world of poets to collect, select and reunite their best verse compositions in a personal magnum opus called Diwani. The Diwani ya Mnyampala has been published in 1963. My field research works from 2007 to 2010 has shown that, alongside Mathias E. Mnyampala's poems contained in his Diwani, another author may appear. Mary Mangwela Mnyampala (Wastara) is a woman poet and the wife of the author. It is not clearly indicated in her spouse's Diwani but she may have written at least five poems inside. This article is an interrogation about the meaning of this woman hidden in the Diwani ya Mnyampala: from an initial and heuristical approach in terms of gender - that will speak to the lack of relevance in this aesthetic field of a victimized woman prejudice or hypothesis - toward a political and aesthetical reflection on East African art and Kiswahili poetry.
Subject(s) [SHS:LITT] Humanities and Social Sciences/Literature; [SHS:LITT] Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Littératures; [SHS:ART] Humanities and Social Sciences/Art and art history; [SHS:ART] Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Art et histoire de l'art; [SHS:SCIPO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Political science; [SHS:SCIPO] Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Science politique; Africa; Art; African art; East Africa; Tanzania; Swahili; Kiswahili; literature; poetry; aesthetic; women; creative writing; politics; gender
Language eng
Type of publication preprint
Repository France - Hyper Article en Ligne (HAL), SHS
Added to C-A: 2014-10-15;14:29:03