Alena Rettová
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 95110 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alena Rettová |
| PRENOMES | Alena |
| SOBRENOME | Rettová |
| ASSINATURA | RETTOVÁ A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Bayreuth |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2465-5477 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The Genres of Swahili Philosophy
This article maintains that African philosophy should consider those discourses that function as channels of important ideas in African cultures, without prejudice against their language and, especially, their genre. What are such philosophical discourses? This article starts from a case study, Swahili culture, and interrogates the communicative resources available to it to serve as vehicles of philosophical thought. The survey includes language …
African Philosophy and African languages
Critical Conversations in African Philosophy
New Conversations in African Philosophy
Post-Genocide, Post-Apartheid
This article traces the developments of African philosophy since 1994, a year marked by two events that profoundly impacted Africa: the fall of apartheid and the Rwandan genocide. The article projects a fundamental tension into the history of recent African philosophy: between optimism and idealism, showing in the development of normative concepts and a new philosophical vocabulary for Africa – a “conceptual mandelanization” (Edet 2015: 218), on …
Generic fracturing in Okot p’Bitek’s White Teeth
Based on a stylistic analysis of selected African novels, centrally Okot p’Bitek’s Lak Tar/White Teeth (1953; English translation: 1989), this article identifies a narrative technique employed by these novels, to use heterogeneous genres inserted into the prose fiction of the novel. Typically, various genres of poetry are used in this way, creating a textuality that is richly “heteroglossic” (Bakhtin, 1981). However, the range of genres that can …
Translation as destruction
Tanzanian novelist and philosopher Euphrase Kezilahabi strives to "dismantle the resemblance of language to the world" (1985: 216) through challenging the fundamental philosophical dichotomy of subject and object. The result of this dismantling will be a new "language whose foundation is Being" (Kezilahabi 1991: 69; lugha ambayo msingi wake ni kuwako). This is an expression of a new relationship between humanity and Being built on a holistic epis…
Sci-fi and Afrofuturism in the Afrophone Novel
The paper explores literary experimentation in novels in African languages, with a focus on Swahili and Shona science fiction and Afrofuturism.While science fiction is a genre whose relevance to Africa has often been questioned, Afrophone writers have produced sci-fi novels in several African languages and the genre seems to be experiencing a new interest in the 21st century.A number of novels contain visions of Africa's utopian or dystopian futu…
Writing in the Swing? Neo-Realism in Post-Experimental Swahili Fiction
This article traces the history of the Swahili novel in its development from realism to experimental prose, and following the experimental phase back to realism in the recent works of some of the former literary experimentators. This trend is called and defined here as “neo-realism.” The motivation for this return to realism is found in the domains of aesthetics; didacticism; reception of literature; politics and economy; and philosophy. The prim…
African philosophy as a radical critique
In the past half of a century African philosophy has established itself as an academic discipline. The term has become a trademark with which a number of introductions (Kimmerle 1991; Bidima 1995
A solitary war? Genre, community and philosophy in Swahili culture
This article explores individual and collective forms of knowledge production and their relevance for African philosophy, where collective beliefs are dubbed ‘ethnophilosophy’ and decried as a surrender of critical reason. This article uses evidence from two case studies: the free-verse poetry that devils use to communicate with humans in William Mkufya's Swahili novel Ziraili na Zirani and the dialogic poetry called ngonjera, a new genre invente…
The singer of pain
Sando Marteau is a Swahiliphone performing artist who lives in Lubumbashi, DRC. This article places the artist within the tradition of Swahili poetry, yet outside of what it calls ‘strung-pearl aesthetics’, on which much so-called traditional Swahili poetry is predicated. This aesthetics projects a rigid prosodic structure upon poetic speech, whereby the formal arrangement of language corresponds to an equally harmonious and pleasing ordering of …
Le roman Swahili
The Attitude to Tradition in Ndebele Theoretical Writing
Ndebele non-fictional literature is inspired in decisive measure by the historical events and statehood of the nineteenth-century Ndebele kingdom, which define what the Ndebele see as their ‘traditional culture’ or tradition. This essay demonstrates how Ndebele theoretical writing manifests this tradition in three moments: first, the consciousness of its absence and the ensuing distance from it; second, subjection of tradition to critical reflexi…
The role of African languages in African philosophy
partie, sous quelque forme et de quelque manière que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord préalable et écrit de l'éditeur, en dehors des cas prévus par la législation en vigueur en France.Il est précisé que son stockage dans une base de données est également interdit
African philosophy as a radical critique
In the past half of a century African philosophy has established itself as an academic discipline. The term has become a trademark with which a number of introductions (Kimmerle 1991; Bidima 1995
Sci-fi and Afrofuturism in the Afrophone Novel
The paper explores literary experimentation in novels in African languages, with a focus on Swahili and Shona science fiction and Afrofuturism.While science fiction is a genre whose relevance to Africa has often been questioned, Afrophone writers have produced sci-fi novels in several African languages and the genre seems to be experiencing a new interest in the 21st century.A number of novels contain visions of Africa's utopian or dystopian futu…
Writing in the Swing? Neo-Realism in Post-Experimental Swahili Fiction
This article traces the history of the Swahili novel in its development from realism to experimental prose, and following the experimental phase back to realism in the recent works of some of the former literary experimentators. This trend is called and defined here as “neo-realism.” The motivation for this return to realism is found in the domains of aesthetics; didacticism; reception of literature; politics and economy; and philosophy. The prim…
A solitary war? Genre, community and philosophy in Swahili culture
This article explores individual and collective forms of knowledge production and their relevance for African philosophy, where collective beliefs are dubbed ‘ethnophilosophy’ and decried as a surrender of critical reason. This article uses evidence from two case studies: the free-verse poetry that devils use to communicate with humans in William Mkufya's Swahili novel Ziraili na Zirani and the dialogic poetry called ngonjera, a new genre invente…
The role of African languages in African philosophy
partie, sous quelque forme et de quelque manière que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord préalable et écrit de l'éditeur, en dehors des cas prévus par la législation en vigueur en France.Il est précisé que son stockage dans une base de données est également interdit
The Attitude to Tradition in Ndebele Theoretical Writing
Ndebele non-fictional literature is inspired in decisive measure by the historical events and statehood of the nineteenth-century Ndebele kingdom, which define what the Ndebele see as their ‘traditional culture’ or tradition. This essay demonstrates how Ndebele theoretical writing manifests this tradition in three moments: first, the consciousness of its absence and the ensuing distance from it; second, subjection of tradition to critical reflexi…
Le roman Swahili
The singer of pain
Sando Marteau is a Swahiliphone performing artist who lives in Lubumbashi, DRC. This article places the artist within the tradition of Swahili poetry, yet outside of what it calls ‘strung-pearl aesthetics’, on which much so-called traditional Swahili poetry is predicated. This aesthetics projects a rigid prosodic structure upon poetic speech, whereby the formal arrangement of language corresponds to an equally harmonious and pleasing ordering of …
Writing in the Swing? Neo-Realism in Post-Experimental Swahili Fiction
This article traces the history of the Swahili novel in its development from realism to experimental prose, and following the experimental phase back to realism in the recent works of some of the former literary experimentators. This trend is called and defined here as “neo-realism.” The motivation for this return to realism is found in the domains of aesthetics; didacticism; reception of literature; politics and economy; and philosophy. The prim…
African philosophy as a radical critique
In the past half of a century African philosophy has established itself as an academic discipline. The term has become a trademark with which a number of introductions (Kimmerle 1991; Bidima 1995
A solitary war? Genre, community and philosophy in Swahili culture
This article explores individual and collective forms of knowledge production and their relevance for African philosophy, where collective beliefs are dubbed ‘ethnophilosophy’ and decried as a surrender of critical reason. This article uses evidence from two case studies: the free-verse poetry that devils use to communicate with humans in William Mkufya's Swahili novel Ziraili na Zirani and the dialogic poetry called ngonjera, a new genre invente…
Sci-fi and Afrofuturism in the Afrophone Novel
The paper explores literary experimentation in novels in African languages, with a focus on Swahili and Shona science fiction and Afrofuturism.While science fiction is a genre whose relevance to Africa has often been questioned, Afrophone writers have produced sci-fi novels in several African languages and the genre seems to be experiencing a new interest in the 21st century.A number of novels contain visions of Africa's utopian or dystopian futu…
Translation as destruction
Tanzanian novelist and philosopher Euphrase Kezilahabi strives to "dismantle the resemblance of language to the world" (1985: 216) through challenging the fundamental philosophical dichotomy of subject and object. The result of this dismantling will be a new "language whose foundation is Being" (Kezilahabi 1991: 69; lugha ambayo msingi wake ni kuwako). This is an expression of a new relationship between humanity and Being built on a holistic epis…
Critical Conversations in African Philosophy
New Conversations in African Philosophy
Post-Genocide, Post-Apartheid
This article traces the developments of African philosophy since 1994, a year marked by two events that profoundly impacted Africa: the fall of apartheid and the Rwandan genocide. The article projects a fundamental tension into the history of recent African philosophy: between optimism and idealism, showing in the development of normative concepts and a new philosophical vocabulary for Africa – a “conceptual mandelanization” (Edet 2015: 218), on …
Generic fracturing in Okot p’Bitek’s White Teeth
Based on a stylistic analysis of selected African novels, centrally Okot p’Bitek’s Lak Tar/White Teeth (1953; English translation: 1989), this article identifies a narrative technique employed by these novels, to use heterogeneous genres inserted into the prose fiction of the novel. Typically, various genres of poetry are used in this way, creating a textuality that is richly “heteroglossic” (Bakhtin, 1981). However, the range of genres that can …
African Philosophy and African languages
The Genres of Swahili Philosophy
This article maintains that African philosophy should consider those discourses that function as channels of important ideas in African cultures, without prejudice against their language and, especially, their genre. What are such philosophical discourses? This article starts from a case study, Swahili culture, and interrogates the communicative resources available to it to serve as vehicles of philosophical thought. The survey includes language …
Philosophy (12 obras) · Sociology (10 obras) · African cultural and philosophical studies (9 obras) · Art (8 obras) · Linguistics (8 obras) · Epistemology (7 obras) · Literature (7 obras) · History (6 obras) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (6 obras) · Swahili (6 obras)