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Kujibizana: Questions of Language and Power in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Poetry in Kishwahili

Ann Biersteker

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Kujibizana presents a series of arguments for reading poetry in Kiswahili by providing a history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century political poetry that focuses on the reading and writing of poetry within resistance movements.

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Kujibizana presents a series of arguments for reading poetry in Kiswahili by providing a history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century political poetry that focuses on the reading and writing of poetry within resistance movements.

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Kujibizana presents a series of arguments for reading poetry in Kiswahili by providing a history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century political poetry that focuses on the reading and writing of poetry within resistance movements.

Key concepts: Poetry, Reading (process), Literature, Politics, Resistance (ecology), Power (physics), History, Art

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