Spring 2002
10.1
The following is the Table of Contents from the Spring 2002 edition of
Metamorphoses, a Special Issue on Sub-Saharan Africa.
Some of the selections are linked and available on-line; the complete edition,
including the original language versions for the poetry, is only available in print.
| Thalia Pandiri | Editorial | 11 |
INTRODUCTION
| Katwiwa Mule | Translation, Mistranslation, and Cultural Theory: African Inflections, Challenges, and Prospects | 16 |
EAST AFRICA
| Gitahi Gititi | Translator’s/Author’s Note The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars Physician, Heal Thyself What Hour of the Night? Taproot Earthquake Building the Nation Cure for Headaches, I Cure for Headaches, II Head’s for Thinking Dust on the Road to Nyîrî Town One Hundred Shillings The Lower Depths The Census Comes to Grandmother Translated from the Gikûyû by the author |
47 47 56 58 60 62 64 66 68 68 70 72 74 76 |
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| Mwenda Ntarangwi | The Neverending Wisdom of Swahili Poetry: Zuhura Swaleh’s Taarab Poetry |
79 | |
| Zuhura Swaleh | Family Planning Today’s Life I Would Rather Leave You Cat Father Short Dress Tray Cow Drunkard Firewood Pot Worm Knife Translated from Kiswahili by Mwenda Ntarangwi |
86 88 92 96 98 100 102 104 106 110 112 114 116 |
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| Alamin Mazrui | Door Detention Embrace Me Which Way Is Ours? I Crossed Translated from Kiswahili by Sau Lugano |
118 120 122 124 126 |
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| Katherine Kitetu | “Jina Lake Yesu Tamu”: A Translator’s Reflections How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds Translated into Kiswahili by Katherine Kitetu |
128 130 |
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| Remmy Ongala | Mrema Little One Translated from Kiswahili by Aaron Rosenberg |
132 140 |
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| Zaja Ombogo | Kiswahili Literary Translations: A Critical Reappraisal | 142 | |
| Kitula King'ei | The Challenge of Translating Poetic and Metaphorical Language From a Translation: The Case of Okot p’Bitek’s Song of Lawino | 152 | |
| Mwenda Mbatiah | Introduction: A Kimeru Folk Tale Hyena and Cow: A Kimeru Folk Tale Collected, transcribed, and translated from Kimeru by Mwenda Mbatiah |
164 167 |
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| Joseph Mbele | On Translating “Hawk and Crow”: A Matengo Folktale Hawk and Crow Collected, transcribed, and translated from Matengo by Joseph Mbele |
169 175 |
WEST AFRICA
| Pamela J. Olúbùnmi Smith | The Oral/Aural: Sound and Meaning in Yorùbá Poetic Prose Translation—Akínwùmí Ìsölá and the Fágúnwà Tradition | 185 |
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| Akinloyè Òjó | From Oral to Contemporary: Praise Singing in Afaimo, A Collection of Yorùbá Poems By Akinwumi Ìsölá | 199 | |
| Akinwumi Ìsölá | First Words Be Patient Without Knowing Títílolá Translated from Yorùbá by Akinloyè Òjó |
212 214 216 218 |
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| Thomas A. Hale | Translating the African Oral Epic: The Example of the Epic of Askia Mohammed | 222 | |
| Bertrade B. Nog-Ngijol Banoum | Translating the Basaa Oral Epic Bon ba Hiton Bon ba Hiton Translated from Basaa by Bertrade B. Ngo-Ngijol |
236 242 |
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| Aïssata Sidikou | Beto as a Nation Builder Beto Translated from Songhoy-Zarma by the author |
285 290 |
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| Eric Charry, Jan Jansen, Seydou Camara | The Mande Praise Song Kayra (Peace): Mande Global Perspectives Kayra Translated from the original by translator |
300 312 |
SOUTHERN AFRICA
| Mark Sanders | N.P. van Wyk Louw in Translation Translated from Afrikaans by Mark Sanders |
323 |
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| N.P. Van Wyk Louw | Volkskritiek/ People’s Criticism | 329 | |
| Adam Small |
The Minister Latterday Leadership: A Comission of Inquiry Into Separate But Equal Facilities Sideshow On New Year’s Eve What Now? From Here to Eternity The Hoodlum Gives Thanks Apocalypse Moonless Night Big Business Nkosi Sikelel i Afrika Ezekiel Introduced and translated from Afrikaans by Carrol Lasker |
336 336 338 344 346 348 350 352 352 354 356 358 |
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| Chenjerai Hove |
Dreamed of Beloved It Is She I Love Introduced and translated from Shona by Katrina Daly Thompson |
366 370 |
