METAMORPHOSES
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 | From the Editor in Chief | 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 Translated from the Gikûyû by the author |
47 47 56 58 60 62 64 66 68 68 70 72 |
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| MWENDA NTARANGWI | The Neverending Wisdom of Swahili Poetry: Zuhura Swaleh’s Taarab Poetry |
79 |
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| 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 OMBOGA | 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 |
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| 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. NGO-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 Aissata Sidikou |
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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| CHANJERAI HOVE |
Dreamed of Beloved It Is She I Love Introduced and translated from Chimurenga by Katrina Daly Thompson |
366 370 |