On the poetics of the Utendi: a critical edition of the nineteenth-century Swahili poem "Utendi wa Haudaji" together with a stylistic analysis
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| adam_text | Clarissa Vierke
On the Poetics of the Utendi
A Critical Edition
of the Nineteenth-Century Swahili Poem
Utendi wa Haudaji
together with a Stylistic Analysis
LIT
Contents
Table of Figures X
Acknowledgement XI
Preface XIII
A note on fieldwork XV
PART I: ANALYTICAL PART 1
0 Introduction 3
0 1 Notes on Style 3
011A stylistic analysis: point of departure 3
012 Style and genre - some coordinates 6
013 Genre, representation and stylo 11
014A note on the approach 14
0 2 Preliminary notes on Swahili poetry and poetics 17
021 Swahili Poetry as an elevated register of speech 17
022 Swahili poetic genera dicendi 19
0 3 On conventions of presentation 21
1 The poetics of the stanza: poetic structure 23
1 1 The utendi s versification: an outline of prosody 23
111 Modes of actualisation 23
112 Basic outline of the stanza and its emic termini technici 25
1121A note on rhyme 26
113 Accentuating metrics 28
1131 The perfect fourth: a Grenzschema 35
1132 Parallels and differences to normal speech 39
114 Melody and intonation 41
1141 Duration 41
1142 Pitch 42
1143 Melodical variation 42
1144 Melody and intonation 44
115 On repartition: the couplet structure of the utendi 48
1151A comparative side remark 51
116 Summary: a schematic overview of the utendi stanza 54
117 Conclusion 55
1 2 An outline of line syntax 57
121 The prosodic line from a syntactic perspective 57
1211 The caesura between two clauses 57
VI
1212 The caesura cuts through a clause 62
1213 The caesura cuts through a nominal construction 64
1214 Conclusion 67
122 The foot from a syntactic perspective 68
123 On syntactic equivalence of feet and lines 73
1231 Dependent and independent elements 73
1232 The tendency towards equivalence of prosodic units and ellipsis 76
1233 Morphological ellipsis: reduced marking and prosodic terseness 83
1234 Successive dichotomy: homology of prosodic-syntactic units 89
1235 Conclusion 94
1 3 Parallelismus membrorum: the play on symmetries 95
131 Parallelismus membrorum - some notes on a history of research 95
132 Figures of parallelism 103
1321 Figures of lexical parallelism (word pairs) 103
1322 Figures of form: morphological polarity and parallelism 143
1323 Figures of word order 152
1 4 The idea of parallelism 160
141 Parallelism and symmetry 160
1411 Parallelism of grammar and lexicon: the poetic artifice 160
1412 Symbolical parallelism: symmetry as revelation 165
142 Parallelism and the production of meaning 170
1421A functional consideration of parallelism: expansion 170
1422 The rhetorical and the noetic aspect of parallelism 189
1423 Conclusion 205
2 Beyond the stanza: The architecture of the utendi s narrative 209
21A tripartite structure of beginning, main part and end 209
2 2 The narrative mode 211
221 Narrative perspective - the perspective of the narrator 211
2211 The narrator s voice: the meta-narration of narration 212
2212 The meta-narration of telling a story 215
2213 The meta-narration of translation 218
2214 The persuading narrator 221
2215 The biased narrator 222
2216 The omniscient narrator 224
2217 Conclusion: the narrator as a mimetic project 226
222 Narrative distance: the utendi between drama and narration 227
2221 The construction of diegesis: the telling narrator 229
2222 The dramatic aspect: a typology of mimetic units 232
2223A mimetic account: the showing narrator 245
2224 Conclusion 249
VII
2 3 Weaving the text: the utendi s narrative structure 253
231 The plot and the utendi s dramatic curve 253
2311 Exposition: pre-story and initial motivation 255
2312 Complication, conflict and counteraction 257
2313 Climax: suspense and its resolution 258
2314 The end 259
232 Unity of plot and episodicity - an antagonism 260
233 Agonality of episodes 262
234 Succession of episodes and the technique of stranding 264
2341 Episodic complexes and cyclic patterns 264
2342 Multi-stranded narration: the interlace technique 269
2343 Overview of the double-stranded narrative 274
2344 Narrative strands and unified text 276
2345 Beyond the individual utendi: textual autonomy and text cycles 284
2346 Conclusion 288
235 The idea of narrative strands 289
2351 Stranding as a way of creating suspense and a sign of artistry 289
2352 Stranding as a form of narrative parallelism 290
2353 Stranding, plot proliferation and iconic magnitude 293
2354 Stranding and plot proliferaton as a mimetic project 294
236 Appendix: overview of scenes and episodes in the Haudaji 296
3 Inventio: Repertoire of words, episodes, topoi and figures 302
3 1 Poetic lexicon - poetic grammar 302
311A specific lexical repertoire 302
3111 Arabisms 303
3112 Dialectal forms of Kiamu 307
3113 Lexemes from other dialects 311
3114 Archaisms 312
312A poetic repertoire of grammar 324
3121 Phonology 325
3122 Morphology 327
313 Conclusion «• 339
3 2 Formulisation: recurring episodes, topoi and formulas 340
321 Recurring scenic and episodic scripts 340
3211 The spy episode 340
3212 Enumeration: the review of troops 342
3213 The battle episode(s) 343
3214 The duel 343
3215 The homecoming episode 345
3216 The camp episode: repetition in the strict sense? 346
322 Recurring topoi - the battle as locus communi 347
VIII
3221 Day turns into night 348
3222 Turmoil on the battlefield raises dust 349
3223 Battle causes noise and turmoil 349
3224 Battle is an impasse: there is no way to escape 350
3225 The enemies bodies are split into two 351
3226 Killing as to hurl into water 351
3227 Bloodstreams 352
3228 Paradise and hell 352
323 Formulas 352
3231 Lexicalised patterns 353
3232 Formulaic structural patterns 356
324 Conclusive evaluation 359
3 3 On stock figures and ideal-typical characterisation 364
331 Stock figures 364
3311 Stock figures and the illusion of multitudes 364
3312 An inventory of stock figures 366
332 Some notes on characterisation 371
3321 Characters as types 371
3322 Names, epithets, titles: characters as bearers of roles 373
3323 Rendering the abstract manifest in concrete form 382
333 Conclusion: stock figures and ideal-typical characterisation 389
3 4 The idea of repertoire-bound composition 390
341 Recurrence as an aesthetic concept 390
342 The concept of composition and poetic practice 391
3421 Kutunga - an etymological consideration 391
3422 The composition of the utendi: a form of aemulatio 393
3423 Learning to compose: poetry as a craft 396
343 The meaning of continuity: continuity and creativity 402
344 Repertoire-bound composition as a noetic approach 408
345 Conclusion 415
4 Beyond the text: historiography as textual function 416
4 1 Historiography - a key function of the narrative utendi 416
42A note on the Utendi wa Haudaji and its historical sources 417
421 Historicity and history: the historical theme of the Haudaji 417
422 The narrative utendi and the legendary maghazi traditions 420
4 3 The utendi s conceptualisation of history and historiography 424
431 Historiography as a cultural pattern 424
432 Historical sense and allegorical sense: the utendi as a layered text 425
433 The utendi as eschatological account 429
434 The utendi and its prescriptive value - the moral discourse 430
IX
4341 The moral discourse 430
4342 Catharsis: moral discourse and affection 434
4343A note on the utendi as popular text 436
435 The Utendi wa Haudaji as a parable of Lamuan history 439
4351 The utendi as cultural memory 439
4352 The utendi as a subversive anti-colonial parable 443
4353 The utendi as a parable of factionalism 446
436 Conclusion 448
Closing remarks 450
Outlook 451
PART II: THE TEXT 455
1 On the manuscripts and text versions 457
1 1 The manuscripts 457
111 Utendi wa Haudaji (DA) from the Dammann collection 457
112 Utendi wa Khaudaji (Al) from the Allen collection 458
113 Utendi wa Hijira (A2) from the Allen collection 459
114A note on Arabic script 460
1 2 Evaluation of the three versions 462
121A comparison of the versions: variation and variability 462
122A note on the loss of manuscript pages in Al 466
123 Concordance of stanzas 469
124 Conclusion and some further considerations 472
2 Synopsis 476
2 1 Preliminaries 476
211 Conventions of presentation 476
212A note on transliteration 478
213A note on translation 478
2 2 The Text 479
221 Common part found in DA, AI and A2 479
222 Final part of DA (and partly A I) 638
223 Final part of Al 652
224 Index 678
References 680
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