Research Catalog

Title

From the Tana River to Lake Chad : research in African oratures and literatures : in memoriam Thomas Geider / edited by Hannelore Vögele, Uta Reuster-Jahn, Raimund Kastenholz und Lutz Diegner.

Publication

• Köln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, [2014]
• ©2014

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Additional Authors

• Geider, Thomas, 1953-2010
• Vögele, Hannelore
• Reuster-Jahn, Uta
• Kastenholz, Raimund
• Diegner, Lutz

Description

427 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm.

Series Statement

Mainzer Beiträge zur Afrika-Forschung ; Band 36

Uniform Title

Mainzer Beiträge zur Afrika-Forschung ; Bd. 36.

Alternative Title

Research in African oratures and literatures : in memoriam Thomas Geider

Subject

• Geider, Thomas, 1953-2010
• African literature > History and criticism
• Swahili literature > History and criticism
• Folk literature, African > History and criticism
• Oral tradition > Africa
• Folklore > Africa

Note

• Memorial volume.

Bibliography (note)

• "Thomas Geider's list of publications": pages 411-418.
• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• In English, one French and eleven contributions in German; includes some text in Swahili.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• In memoriam. In memoriam Thomas Geider / H. Ekkehard Wolff -- Thomas Geider (1953-2010) / Ulrich Braukämper -- Thomas Geider (1953-2010) / Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig -- In memoriam Thomas Geider 29.4.1953-15.10.2010 / Uta Reuster-Jahn -- KASA announces Geider's death / Bosoma Sheriff. --
• African narrative research, documentary literature and Weltliteratur. Narrare necesse est : Der Mensch als homo narrans und die Signifikanz des Erzählens / Manuela Kirberg -- Und sie reimen doch : Parallelismus in afrikanischen Oraturen / H. Ekkehard Wolff -- Strategies of persuasion and manipulation in animal trickster tales / Uta Reuster-Jahn -- Kinoerzählen in Afrika : Skizze eines Forschungsfeldes / Matthias Krings -- Documentary literature in African languages / Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig -- The Grimmification of narrative tradition / Ulrich Marzolph -- Drei Schritte zur Weltliteratur / Erhard Schüttpelz. --
• West African oratures, literatures and music. Praise song : Thomas Geider / A. Tahir Abba -- Interpretations of Kungulu : a court music of the Shehu of Borno / Raimund Vogels, Bosoma Sheriff and Wakil A. Wasaram -- The representative of the King of England in Borno : an example of recent oral history / Norbert Cyffer -- Die Rezeption von Tausendundeiner Nacht in der Hausa-Literatur / Marion Feuerstein-Tubach -- "I want to be my own cow" : Fulani names and superstitions about their cows / Rudolf Leger -- Création et répertoire en littérature orale / Ursula Baumgardt -- Bamanankan-Literatur : Eine kleine Geschichte des Veröffentlichens und Verlegens in Mali / Nadia Cohen. --
• East African oratures, literatures and music. Shairi / Poem : Thomas Geider / Hassan Adam, Omar Babu Marjan -- Shairi / Poem : Kaburi! / Grave! / Said Ahmed Mohamed -- Shairi / Poem : Nakukumbuka... Thomas Geider / I remember you... Thomas Geider / Kyallo Wamitila, Omar Babu Marjan -- Hadithi fupi / Short story : Sitaki kwenda chuoni! / The reluctant scholar / Farouk Topan -- Swahili manuscripts : looking in East African collections for Swahili manuscripts ni Arabic script / Ridder H. Samsom -- "Im Gebälk die Fledermäuse" : Figurationen der Vergänglichkeit und der Täuschung in der klassischen Swahili-Dichtung -- The Qanbus connection : pre-Taarab roots on the northern Kenya coast / Werner Graebner -- Linguistic knowledge and the creative writer / Said A.M. Khamis -- The Kenyan challenge (?) : dis/continuities in Swahili novel writing 50 years after independence / Lutz Diegner -- Iraqw slufay and the power of voice / Rose Marie Beck and Maarten Mous -- Local names and technical terms for Amharic poetic genres in Ethiopia / Getie Gelaye.

ISBN

9783896458360

OCLC

918791959

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library