Tina Steiner
Biographic Data
| ID | 158686 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tina Steiner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tina |
| FAMILY NAME | Steiner |
| SIGNATURE | STEINER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stellenbosch University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3083-778X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Archipelago, Sedimentation, Drift: Reading African Literature with the Ocean
In her 2017 piece “Coastal Form”, Meg Samuelson asks whether there is a natural logic at work when we look at literary representations of the Eastern African coast, and whether we can speak of stor
African Literature in Transition: The Archive of African Literature, 1800–2000
This book offers a compelling new approach to African literatures as formed by and itself a form of collective memory. It explores the historical spaces and maps that African literature brings to the surface and re-imagines in novel ways. The stories that matter about what happened in the past together constitute a collective memory that African writers and readers draw upon to locate themselves within the world. The book examines the mental maps…
Arab Traces in Coastal Eastern Africa
This chapter offers a reading of a range of anglophone East African novels from Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Comoros, and Madagascar to highlight the long history of multifaceted interactions between African and Arab communities in the region due to trade, migration, intermarriage, and the assimilation of cultural and religious elements into Swahili culture. The narratives mark conditions of possibility for capacious diversity, hospitali…
A Conversation with Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, a Ugandan novelist and short story writer, was born in Uganda in 1967. Her first published novel, Kintu (2014), won the Kwani? Manuscript Project in 2013, the Prix Trans
Let’s Talk About Craft! A Conversation with Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
Critical Perspectives on Abdulrazak Gurnah
The language of food: Ingestion, expulsion and registers of repair in Alibhai-Brown’s The Settler’s Cookbook
Food preparation, eating practices and various expressions of conviviality associated with food are not only shaped by social contexts, ideas of community and gendered divisions of labor; they are also generative of new ways of connecting people and foodstuffs in the crucible of migration. I explore the complex role of recipes and food in Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s (2008 Alibhai-Brown, Yasmin. Personal Website & Food Blog, 2021. [Google Scholar]) mem…
Scheherazade’s Achievement(s): Practices of Care in Fatema Mernissi’s Memoir, Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood, and her Creative Non-Fiction, Scheherazade Goes West
The Moroccan feminist sociologist Fatema Mernissi (1940–2015) is probably best known for her pioneering scholarly work on gender equality in Islam. This paper, however focuses on her life writing: her memoir, Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood, published in 1994 and her reflections on its Eurocentric reception, which culminated in the publication of her work of creative non-fiction Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different …
In India and East Africa E-Indiya nase East Africa: A travelogue in isiXhosa and English
Woher hat er das? Zum Charakter des Sanskrit-English Dictionary von Monier-Williams
Basically since the time of their publication it has been generally known that the Sanskrit dictionaries written by Monier-Williams (1872 and 1899) and both of the Petersburg dictionaries (Böhtlingk/Roth 1855–1875 and Böhtlingk 1879–1889) are interdependent, which no one working with these works philologically for a prolonged period of time will fail to notice. Due to its well-structured layout and its English rather than German equivalents for m…
Introduction: Indian Ocean Trajectories
A Vagabond on the Road: The Pressure of Genre in Nadifa Mohamed'sBlack Mamba Boy
This article argues that Bakhtin's notion of the chronotope offers an insightful conceptual tool to read Nadifa Mohamed's debut novel Black Mamba Boy and particularly its depiction of time-space in relation to the representation of her protagonist, who functions in the text as an exceptional adventure hero and as representative of the young Somali men who fought for Mussolini and perished during the Second World War. The novel can be read as an a…
Dwelling-in-Travel”: Of Ships, Trains and Planes in M.G. Vassanji's Fiction
M.G. Vassanji's prominent thematic concerns of movement, diaspora, memory, and the formation of migrant subjectivities can be traced and apprehended by paying close attention to the intersecting paths across the Indian Ocean, across railroad tracks into various East African territories and across the invisible lines of international air travel around the globe. The journeys of the characters in Vassanji's narratives propel them into a world with …
A Conversation with Abdulrazak Gurnah
(2013). A Conversation with Abdulrazak Gurnah. English Studies in Africa: Vol. 56, No. 1, pp. 157-167
Critical Perspectives on Abdulrazak Gurnah
(2013). Critical Perspectives on Abdulrazak Gurnah. English Studies in Africa: Vol. 56, No. 1, pp. 1-3
The Grammar of Identity: Transnational Fiction and the Nature of the Boundary
The Indian Ocean travels of Sheikh Yusuf and Imam Ali Ali: Literary representations in Ishtiyaq Shukri'sThe Silent Minaretand Achmat Dangor'sBitter Fruit
This article investigates the narrative function of prominent Muslim travellers (both historical and fictional) across the Indian Ocean to South Africa in the seventeenth and nineteenth century respectively. Ishtiyaq Shukri, author of The Silent Minaret, juxtaposes the figure of Sheikh Yusuf with the protagonist Issa Shamsuddin of the narrative present to critique contemporary politics, both in post-apartheid South Africa and in the global North …
Translating between India and Tanzania: Sophia Mustafa's Partial Cosmopolitanism
Sophia Mustafa (1922–2005), novelist and political activist of South Asian origin, was one of Tanganyika’s first women members of parliament for the Tanganyika African National Union active in the transition from a British-administered trust territory to independent Tanzania under Julius Nyerere. This paper argues, by drawing on her novel Broken Reed (2005) and her nonfictional account The Tanganyika Way: A Personal Story of Tanganyika’s Growth t…
Writing “Wider Worlds”: The Role of Relation in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Fiction
Abdulrazak Gurnah's fiction offers an opportunity to engage with the heterogeneity of East African coastal regions and their place within the Indian Ocean World, which Gurnah traces through an imaginary geography of transregional/transnational movements and encounters. This article offers a reading of Gurnah's fiction and in particular his latest novel, Desertion (2005), through the lens of theories of relation as formulated by Martin Buber and É…
Of cracked lenses: Cultural translation, opacity and the African novel
This article investigates the function of different languages in African fictional texts by focusing on the kinds of social relationships expressed by narratives that tell their stories bilingually, or even multilingually. I argue that the layers of different languages within a text invite translation, both literally and figuratively. Alongside the postcolonial reading, which interprets the juxtapositions of different languages by stressing the c…
Strategic nostalgia, Islam and cultural translation in Leila Aboulela's the translator and coloured lights
Egyptian‐Sudanese author, Leila Aboulela, has written a collection of short stories, Coloured Lights (2001), and two novels, The Translator (1999) and Minaret (2005), which engage with the subtleties of Muslim African immigrant experience in Britain. This article draws on the first two texts to present an inquiry into the role of religion, more specifically Islam, in literary migrant identity politics. I argue that Aboulela critiques Orientalist …
Pockets of connection against the backdrop of culture talk in Ishtiyaq Shukri's novel the silent minaret
This article argues that Shukri's novel functions as a complex critique of representations of Islam by linking the history of colonisation at the Cape to current hostility towards Muslims in Britain. The reductive inscriptions of cultural difference are defined as “Culture Talk”, against which Shukri's narrative sets meaningful personal encounters. These encounters, which bridge the gap which objectifies the Other, extend beyond the narrative to …
Diplomacy as Independent and Dependent Variable
A distinction between diplomacy as independent variable, impacting upon other developments, and diplomacy as dependent variable, adapting to other causes, is employed to underpin focused case analysis of negotiation between states. To dramatize diplomacy as dependent variable, it is hypothesized that allies with convergent interests would find negotiations between themselves more difficult when domestic constraints such as political ideology and …
Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee,Essay on the Principles of Translation
Preview this article: Alexander Fraser Tytler, Essay on the Principles of Translation. By Jeffrey F. Huntsman, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/hl.6.2.09ste-1.gif
English Translation Theory
Writing “Wider Worlds”: The Role of Relation in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Fiction
Abdulrazak Gurnah's fiction offers an opportunity to engage with the heterogeneity of East African coastal regions and their place within the Indian Ocean World, which Gurnah traces through an imaginary geography of transregional/transnational movements and encounters. This article offers a reading of Gurnah's fiction and in particular his latest novel, Desertion (2005), through the lens of theories of relation as formulated by Martin Buber and É…
A Conversation with Abdulrazak Gurnah
(2013). A Conversation with Abdulrazak Gurnah. English Studies in Africa: Vol. 56, No. 1, pp. 157-167
A Vagabond on the Road: The Pressure of Genre in Nadifa Mohamed'sBlack Mamba Boy
This article argues that Bakhtin's notion of the chronotope offers an insightful conceptual tool to read Nadifa Mohamed's debut novel Black Mamba Boy and particularly its depiction of time-space in relation to the representation of her protagonist, who functions in the text as an exceptional adventure hero and as representative of the young Somali men who fought for Mussolini and perished during the Second World War. The novel can be read as an a…
Dwelling-in-Travel”: Of Ships, Trains and Planes in M.G. Vassanji's Fiction
M.G. Vassanji's prominent thematic concerns of movement, diaspora, memory, and the formation of migrant subjectivities can be traced and apprehended by paying close attention to the intersecting paths across the Indian Ocean, across railroad tracks into various East African territories and across the invisible lines of international air travel around the globe. The journeys of the characters in Vassanji's narratives propel them into a world with …
Critical Perspectives on Abdulrazak Gurnah
(2013). Critical Perspectives on Abdulrazak Gurnah. English Studies in Africa: Vol. 56, No. 1, pp. 1-3
The language of food: Ingestion, expulsion and registers of repair in Alibhai-Brown’s The Settler’s Cookbook
Food preparation, eating practices and various expressions of conviviality associated with food are not only shaped by social contexts, ideas of community and gendered divisions of labor; they are also generative of new ways of connecting people and foodstuffs in the crucible of migration. I explore the complex role of recipes and food in Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s (2008 Alibhai-Brown, Yasmin. Personal Website & Food Blog, 2021. [Google Scholar]) mem…
Introduction: Indian Ocean Trajectories
The Grammar of Identity: Transnational Fiction and the Nature of the Boundary
The Indian Ocean travels of Sheikh Yusuf and Imam Ali Ali: Literary representations in Ishtiyaq Shukri'sThe Silent Minaretand Achmat Dangor'sBitter Fruit
This article investigates the narrative function of prominent Muslim travellers (both historical and fictional) across the Indian Ocean to South Africa in the seventeenth and nineteenth century respectively. Ishtiyaq Shukri, author of The Silent Minaret, juxtaposes the figure of Sheikh Yusuf with the protagonist Issa Shamsuddin of the narrative present to critique contemporary politics, both in post-apartheid South Africa and in the global North …
Translating between India and Tanzania: Sophia Mustafa's Partial Cosmopolitanism
Sophia Mustafa (1922–2005), novelist and political activist of South Asian origin, was one of Tanganyika’s first women members of parliament for the Tanganyika African National Union active in the transition from a British-administered trust territory to independent Tanzania under Julius Nyerere. This paper argues, by drawing on her novel Broken Reed (2005) and her nonfictional account The Tanganyika Way: A Personal Story of Tanganyika’s Growth t…
Of cracked lenses: Cultural translation, opacity and the African novel
This article investigates the function of different languages in African fictional texts by focusing on the kinds of social relationships expressed by narratives that tell their stories bilingually, or even multilingually. I argue that the layers of different languages within a text invite translation, both literally and figuratively. Alongside the postcolonial reading, which interprets the juxtapositions of different languages by stressing the c…
English Translation Theory 1650-1800
English Translation Theory
Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee,Essay on the Principles of Translation
Preview this article: Alexander Fraser Tytler, Essay on the Principles of Translation. By Jeffrey F. Huntsman, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/hl.6.2.09ste-1.gif
Diplomacy as Independent and Dependent Variable
A distinction between diplomacy as independent variable, impacting upon other developments, and diplomacy as dependent variable, adapting to other causes, is employed to underpin focused case analysis of negotiation between states. To dramatize diplomacy as dependent variable, it is hypothesized that allies with convergent interests would find negotiations between themselves more difficult when domestic constraints such as political ideology and …
Pockets of connection against the backdrop of culture talk in Ishtiyaq Shukri's novel the silent minaret
This article argues that Shukri's novel functions as a complex critique of representations of Islam by linking the history of colonisation at the Cape to current hostility towards Muslims in Britain. The reductive inscriptions of cultural difference are defined as “Culture Talk”, against which Shukri's narrative sets meaningful personal encounters. These encounters, which bridge the gap which objectifies the Other, extend beyond the narrative to …
Strategic nostalgia, Islam and cultural translation in Leila Aboulela's the translator and coloured lights
Egyptian‐Sudanese author, Leila Aboulela, has written a collection of short stories, Coloured Lights (2001), and two novels, The Translator (1999) and Minaret (2005), which engage with the subtleties of Muslim African immigrant experience in Britain. This article draws on the first two texts to present an inquiry into the role of religion, more specifically Islam, in literary migrant identity politics. I argue that Aboulela critiques Orientalist …
Writing “Wider Worlds”: The Role of Relation in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Fiction
Abdulrazak Gurnah's fiction offers an opportunity to engage with the heterogeneity of East African coastal regions and their place within the Indian Ocean World, which Gurnah traces through an imaginary geography of transregional/transnational movements and encounters. This article offers a reading of Gurnah's fiction and in particular his latest novel, Desertion (2005), through the lens of theories of relation as formulated by Martin Buber and É…
Of cracked lenses: Cultural translation, opacity and the African novel
This article investigates the function of different languages in African fictional texts by focusing on the kinds of social relationships expressed by narratives that tell their stories bilingually, or even multilingually. I argue that the layers of different languages within a text invite translation, both literally and figuratively. Alongside the postcolonial reading, which interprets the juxtapositions of different languages by stressing the c…
Translating between India and Tanzania: Sophia Mustafa's Partial Cosmopolitanism
Sophia Mustafa (1922–2005), novelist and political activist of South Asian origin, was one of Tanganyika’s first women members of parliament for the Tanganyika African National Union active in the transition from a British-administered trust territory to independent Tanzania under Julius Nyerere. This paper argues, by drawing on her novel Broken Reed (2005) and her nonfictional account The Tanganyika Way: A Personal Story of Tanganyika’s Growth t…
The Grammar of Identity: Transnational Fiction and the Nature of the Boundary
The Indian Ocean travels of Sheikh Yusuf and Imam Ali Ali: Literary representations in Ishtiyaq Shukri'sThe Silent Minaretand Achmat Dangor'sBitter Fruit
This article investigates the narrative function of prominent Muslim travellers (both historical and fictional) across the Indian Ocean to South Africa in the seventeenth and nineteenth century respectively. Ishtiyaq Shukri, author of The Silent Minaret, juxtaposes the figure of Sheikh Yusuf with the protagonist Issa Shamsuddin of the narrative present to critique contemporary politics, both in post-apartheid South Africa and in the global North …
A Conversation with Abdulrazak Gurnah
(2013). A Conversation with Abdulrazak Gurnah. English Studies in Africa: Vol. 56, No. 1, pp. 157-167
Critical Perspectives on Abdulrazak Gurnah
(2013). Critical Perspectives on Abdulrazak Gurnah. English Studies in Africa: Vol. 56, No. 1, pp. 1-3
Dwelling-in-Travel”: Of Ships, Trains and Planes in M.G. Vassanji's Fiction
M.G. Vassanji's prominent thematic concerns of movement, diaspora, memory, and the formation of migrant subjectivities can be traced and apprehended by paying close attention to the intersecting paths across the Indian Ocean, across railroad tracks into various East African territories and across the invisible lines of international air travel around the globe. The journeys of the characters in Vassanji's narratives propel them into a world with …
A Vagabond on the Road: The Pressure of Genre in Nadifa Mohamed'sBlack Mamba Boy
This article argues that Bakhtin's notion of the chronotope offers an insightful conceptual tool to read Nadifa Mohamed's debut novel Black Mamba Boy and particularly its depiction of time-space in relation to the representation of her protagonist, who functions in the text as an exceptional adventure hero and as representative of the young Somali men who fought for Mussolini and perished during the Second World War. The novel can be read as an a…
Introduction: Indian Ocean Trajectories
In India and East Africa E-Indiya nase East Africa: A travelogue in isiXhosa and English
Woher hat er das? Zum Charakter des Sanskrit-English Dictionary von Monier-Williams
Basically since the time of their publication it has been generally known that the Sanskrit dictionaries written by Monier-Williams (1872 and 1899) and both of the Petersburg dictionaries (Böhtlingk/Roth 1855–1875 and Böhtlingk 1879–1889) are interdependent, which no one working with these works philologically for a prolonged period of time will fail to notice. Due to its well-structured layout and its English rather than German equivalents for m…
Scheherazade’s Achievement(s): Practices of Care in Fatema Mernissi’s Memoir, Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood, and her Creative Non-Fiction, Scheherazade Goes West
The Moroccan feminist sociologist Fatema Mernissi (1940–2015) is probably best known for her pioneering scholarly work on gender equality in Islam. This paper, however focuses on her life writing: her memoir, Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood, published in 1994 and her reflections on its Eurocentric reception, which culminated in the publication of her work of creative non-fiction Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different …
Let’s Talk About Craft! A Conversation with Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
Critical Perspectives on Abdulrazak Gurnah
The language of food: Ingestion, expulsion and registers of repair in Alibhai-Brown’s The Settler’s Cookbook
Food preparation, eating practices and various expressions of conviviality associated with food are not only shaped by social contexts, ideas of community and gendered divisions of labor; they are also generative of new ways of connecting people and foodstuffs in the crucible of migration. I explore the complex role of recipes and food in Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s (2008 Alibhai-Brown, Yasmin. Personal Website & Food Blog, 2021. [Google Scholar]) mem…
A Conversation with Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, a Ugandan novelist and short story writer, was born in Uganda in 1967. Her first published novel, Kintu (2014), won the Kwani? Manuscript Project in 2013, the Prix Trans
African Literature in Transition: The Archive of African Literature, 1800–2000
This book offers a compelling new approach to African literatures as formed by and itself a form of collective memory. It explores the historical spaces and maps that African literature brings to the surface and re-imagines in novel ways. The stories that matter about what happened in the past together constitute a collective memory that African writers and readers draw upon to locate themselves within the world. The book examines the mental maps…
Arab Traces in Coastal Eastern Africa
This chapter offers a reading of a range of anglophone East African novels from Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Comoros, and Madagascar to highlight the long history of multifaceted interactions between African and Arab communities in the region due to trade, migration, intermarriage, and the assimilation of cultural and religious elements into Swahili culture. The narratives mark conditions of possibility for capacious diversity, hospitali…
Sociology (15 works) · Art (12 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (10 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (9 works) · Literature (9 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works)