1st Edition
A Biography of the Indian Ocean Imagined, Embodied and Experiential Cartographies
Introduction - Refiguring Indian Ocean Epistemological Cartographies
Critical Ocean Studies
Oral Sources
Chapter Outlines
Chapter 1 - Historical Sources and the Writing of Fiction in Valerie Cuthbert's The Great Siege of Fort Jesus
History and Fiction; History as Narrative
Portuguese Historiography of the Indian Ocean World
Portuguese-Oriented Histories of the Kenyan Coast: Cuthbert's Sources
Reproduction of the Colonial Archive: Imported biases in Cuthbert's novel
Chapter 2 - Subverting Eurocentric Histories of the Swahili Coast in the 19th Century
Distanced Affinities and Proximate Tensions: Oral and biographical reflections on Rebmann
Humanizing the Demonized: Subverting Eurocentric histories of the Swahili coast
Chapter 3 - Re-figuring the Colonial Archive: Oral Historiographies of Fort Jesus in Mombasa
Fort Jesus, a Portuguese Fortress: The official oral history of Fort Jesus
Ngomeni, not Fort Jesus: A Digo home, not a Portuguese fortress
Of Disruptions and Erasures: A comparative reading of the oral histories of Fort Jesus
Chapter 4 - From Surface to Depth: Material and Multidimensional Perspectives of the Indian Ocean
Lateral Connections and the Economic Dimension of the Sea
Underwater Perspectives and the Spiritual Dimension of the Sea
Chapter 5 - A Dead and Dying Sea: The Ecological Dimension of the Indian Ocean on the Kenyan Coast
Summoning Local Art Forms: Ecological functions of Swahili oral poetry
Generation Eyewitnesses: Fishers' articulation of a dead and dying sea
Chapter 6 - A Biography of the Indian Ocean: Tracing alternative sea maps in Yvonne Owuor's The Dragonfly Sea
Sensuous Maps of the Indian Ocean
Owuor's Ecocritical and Political Project in The Dragonfly
Conclusion - Notes on Expaning Epistemic Territories
References
Biography
Jacky Kosgei is Junior Professor of Global Epistemologies at University of Tübingen in Germany. Her research interests in Indian Ocean Studies are located at the intersection of literary, cultural, historical and anthropological studies. She is the co-editor of the recently published Proximity as Method (2024).
