Biography of the Indian Ocean

Biography of the Indian Ocean portes grátis

Biography of the Indian Ocean

Imagined, Embodied and Experiential Cartographies

Kosgei, Jacky

Taylor & Francis Ltd

03/2026

158

Dura

Inglês

9781041198475

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Introduction - Refiguring Indian Ocean Epistemological Cartographies

Critical Ocean Studies

Oral Sources

Chapter Outlines

Chapter 1 - Historical Sources and the Writing of Fiction in Valerie Cuthbert's The Great Siege of Fort Jesus

History and Fiction; History as Narrative

Portuguese Historiography of the Indian Ocean World

Portuguese-Oriented Histories of the Kenyan Coast: Cuthbert's Sources

Reproduction of the Colonial Archive: Imported biases in Cuthbert's novel

Chapter 2 - Subverting Eurocentric Histories of the Swahili Coast in the 19th Century

Distanced Affinities and Proximate Tensions: Oral and biographical reflections on Rebmann

Humanizing the Demonized: Subverting Eurocentric histories of the Swahili coast

Chapter 3 - Re-figuring the Colonial Archive: Oral Historiographies of Fort Jesus in Mombasa

Fort Jesus, a Portuguese Fortress: The official oral history of Fort Jesus

Ngomeni, not Fort Jesus: A Digo home, not a Portuguese fortress

Of Disruptions and Erasures: A comparative reading of the oral histories of Fort Jesus

Chapter 4 - From Surface to Depth: Material and Multidimensional Perspectives of the Indian Ocean

Lateral Connections and the Economic Dimension of the Sea

Underwater Perspectives and the Spiritual Dimension of the Sea

Chapter 5 - A Dead and Dying Sea: The Ecological Dimension of the Indian Ocean on the Kenyan Coast

Summoning Local Art Forms: Ecological functions of Swahili oral poetry

Generation Eyewitnesses: Fishers' articulation of a dead and dying sea

Chapter 6 - A Biography of the Indian Ocean: Tracing alternative sea maps in Yvonne Owuor's The Dragonfly Sea

Sensuous Maps of the Indian Ocean

Owuor's Ecocritical and Political Project in The Dragonfly

Conclusion - Notes on Expaning Epistemic Territories

References
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The Dragonfly Sea;Indian Ocean;Kiswahili;A Digo Home;The Great Siege of Fort Jesus;Swahili coast