Prof. Dr. Clarissa Vierke

2024

Africa*n Relations : Modalities Reflected
publ: Vierke, Clarissa; Seesemann, Rüdiger; Kroeker, Lena
Bayreuth 2024. - VIII, 121 page . - (University of Bayreuth African Studies Online; 11)
doi:10.15495/EPub_UBT_00007499 ...

Fendler, Ute; Kohl, Marie-Anne; Ndi, Gilbert Shang; Odhiambo, Christopher Joseph; Vierke, Clarissa
Introduction
Of Worlds and Artworks : A Relational View on Artistic Practices from Africa and the Diaspora
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024. - page 1-14 . - (Africa Multiple; 3)

Of Worlds and Artworks : A Relational View on Artistic Practices from Africa and the Diaspora
publ: Fendler, Ute; Kohl, Marie-Anne; Ndi, Gilbert Shang; Odhiambo, Christopher Joseph; Vierke, Clarissa
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024. - 292 page . - (Africa Multiple; 3)

Vierke, Clarissa
What is the Place of Local Swahili Poetry in the Grand Indian Ocean? Reading Ustadh Mahmoud Mau ...
Asia-Africa- Multifaceted Engagement in the Contemporary World
Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. - page 35-64 . - (Africa's Global Engagement: Perspectives from Emerging Countries)
doi:10.1007/978-981-97-0696-9_3 ...

Vierke, Clarissa
Zanzibari Worlds : a Relational Reading of Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea and Adam Shafi Adam’s ...
Of Worlds and Artworks : A Relational View on Artistic Practices from Africa and the Diaspora
Leiden : Brill, 2024. - page 108-133
doi:10.1163/9789004689756_008 ...

2023

Vierke, Clarissa
“Born on the Island” : Situating Ustadh Mau’s Poetic Practice in Context
In This Fragile World : Swahili Poetry of Commitment by Ustadh Mahmoud Mau
Leiden : Brill, 2023. - page 41-68 . - (Islam in Africa; 25)
doi:10.1163/9789004525726_005 ...

Vierke, Clarissa
Bwana Mwengo bin Athman, The Epic of the Battle of Tabuk
Christian-Muslim Relations : Primary Sources. Volume 3. 1700-1914
New York : Bloomsbury, 2023. - page 319-324

Critical Swahili Studies
publ: Brunotti, Irene; Talento, Serena; Tarrant, Duncan; Vierke, Clarissa
Swahili Forum
2023
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa ...

Decolonial Aesthetics II : Modes of Relating
publ: Oloko, Patrick; Ott, Michaela; Simatei, Peter; Vierke, Clarissa
Berlin ; Heidelberg : Metzler, 2023 . - (Ästhetiken X.0 – Zeitgenössische Konturen ästhetischen Denkens)
doi:10.1007/978-3-662-66222-9 ...

Vierke, Clarissa
How Ought We to Live? The Ethical and the Poetic in Ustadh Mahmoud Mau’s Poetry
In This Fragile World : Swahili Poetry of Commitment by Ustadh Mahmoud Mau
Leiden : Brill, 2023. - page 95-132 . - (Islam in Africa; 25)
doi:10.1163/9789004525726_007 ...

Mau, Ustadh Mahmoud
In this Fragile World : Swahili Poetry of Commitment by Ustadh Mahmoud Mau
publ: Raia, Annachiara; Vierke, Clarissa
Leiden : Brill, 2023. - XVIII, 376 page . - (Islam in Africa; 25)
https://brill.com/edcollbook-oa/title/62192?conten ...

Raia, Annachiara; Vierke, Clarissa
Introduction
In This Fragile World : Swahili Poetry of Commitment by Ustadh Mahmoud Mau
Leiden : Brill, 2023. - page 1-8 . - (Islam in Africa; 25)
doi:10.1163/9789004525726_002 ...

Brunotti, Irene; Talento, Serena; Tarrant, Duncan; Vierke, Clarissa
Introduction
in Swahili Forum volume 30 (2023) . - page 1-23
https://www.gkr.uni-leipzig.de/en/swahili-forum/th ...

Vierke, Clarissa
Of Patience and Pity : Rewriting and Reciting the Widely Travelled Islamic Poem “The Hawk and t ...
in Islamic Africa volume 14 (2023) issue 1. - page 5-41
doi:10.1163/21540993-20220003 ...

Vierke, Clarissa
“The Sea Cannot Be Spoken” : Thinking About Aesthetic Relations, the Poetics of Language(s) and ...
Decolonial Aesthetics II : Modes of Relating
Berlin ; Heidelberg : Metzler, 2023. - page 189-202 . - (Ästhetiken X.0 – Zeitgenössische Konturen ästhetischen Denkens)
doi:10.1007/978-3-662-66222-9_17 ...

2022

Kresse, Kai; Vierke, Clarissa
Swahili language and literature as resources for Indian Ocean studies
in History Compass volume 20 (2022) issue 7
doi:10.15495/EPub_UBT_00006697 ...

Vierke, Clarissa
An Intimate “Range of Elsewhere” : Sensuous Imaginaries of the Indian Ocean in Precolonial Swah ...
in Comparative Literature volume 74 (2022) issue 2. - page 156-170
doi:10.1215/00104124-9594800 ...

Vierke, Clarissa; Mutiua, Chapane
The Kaiser, Angoche and the World at Large : Swahili Poetry from Mozambique as World (War) Lite ...
African Literatures as World Literature
New York : Bloomsbury, 2022. - page 91-113
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/african-literatures- ...

Vierke, Clarissa
When the Emperor Travelled the Continent : On the Cosmopolis of Islamic Literature and its Adap ...
Crossings and Comparisons in African Literary and Cultural Studies
Trier : WVT, 2022. - page 13-37 . - (LuKA - Studien zu Literaturen und Kunst Afrikas; 15)

2021

One Text – Many Forms : A Comparative View on the Variability of Swahili Manuscripts
publ: Samsom, Ridder H.; Vierke, Clarissa
Manuscript Cultures
2021
https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/publications/mc/mc ...

Samsom, Ridder H.; Vierke, Clarissa
One Text, Many Forms : A Comparative View of the Variability of Swahili Manuscripts
in Manuscript Cultures volume 17 (2021) . - page 2-12
https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/publications/mc/fi ...

Vierke, Clarissa
Writing Songs, Singing Texts : Orality and Literacy in Swahili Manuscripts
in Manuscript Cultures volume 17 (2021) . - page 87-104
https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/publications/mc/fi ...

2020

Vierke, Clarissa
Boarding a Full Bus
in Matatu : Journal for African Culture and Society volume 51 (2020) issue 1. - page 94-117
doi:10.1163/18757421-05101001 ...

Vierke, Clarissa; Mutiua, Chapane
The Poem about the Prophet’s Death in Mozambique : Swahili as a Transregional Language of Islam ...
in Journal for Islamic Studies volume 38 (2020) issue 2. - page 44-74
https://unisapressjournals.co.za/index.php/JIS/art ...

Vierke, Clarissa
Poetry
The Oxford Handbook of African Languages
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020. - page 1016-1025
doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199609895.013.5 ...

Texts Travelling Beyond the West
publ: Raia, Annachiara; Vierke, Clarissa
Asian Journal of African Studies
2020
https://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?node ...

Vierke, Clarissa; Raia, Annachiara
Texts Travelling Beyond the West : An Introduction
in Asian Journal of African Studies volume 48 (2020) . - page 1-30
https://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?node ...

2019

Vierke, Clarissa
Frau Betelpfeffer und die lustvollen Stunden : Die Inszenierung sinnlicher Erfahrung, Erinnerun ...
Gegessen? Essen und Erinnerung in den Literaturen der Welt
Berlin : Neofelis, 2019. - page 125-148

Vierke, Clarissa
Intervention, Patronage and Performance : A Foreword
in Matatu : Journal for African Culture and Society volume 51 (2019) issue 1. - page 4-10
doi:10.1163/18757421-05101003 ...

Vierke, Clarissa
The Making of the “Classical” Utenzi : a Consideration of the Early Editorial History of Tenzi ...
Lugha na Fasihi : Scritti in onore e memoria di Essays in honour and memory of Elena Bertoncini-Zúbková
Neapel : Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, 2019. - page 33-58 . - (Università degli studi di Napoli l'Orientale / Dipartimento Asia Africa e Mediterraneo : Series Minor; 85)

Vierke, Clarissa
Other Worlds : The “Prophet’s Ascension” as World Literature and its Adaptation in Swahili-spea ...
Vergleichende Weltliteraturen = Comparative World Literatures : DFG-Symposion 2018
Stuttgart : Metzler, 2019. - page 219-233
doi:10.1007/978-3-476-04925-4_15 ...

2018

Vierke, Clarissa
Bwana Mwengo bin Athman
Christian Muslim Relations Online II
Leiden : Brill, 2018. - page 777-781
doi:10.1163/2451-9537_cmrii_COM_28459 ...

Vierke, Clarissa
Utendi wa Tambuka
Christian Muslim Relations Online II
Leiden : Brill, 2018
doi:10.1163/2451-9537_cmrii_COM_28460 ...

2017

Vierke, Clarissa; Veit-Wild, Flora
Introduction : Digging into Language
in Research in African Literatures volume 48 (2017) issue 1. - page 9-18
doi:10.2979/reseafrilite.48.1.01 ...

Kandagor, Mosol; Ogechi, Nathan O.; Vierke, Clarissa
Lugha na fasihi katika karne ya ishirini na moja : kwa heshima ya marehemu Profesa Naoma Lucher ...
Eldoret, Kenya : Moi University Press, 2017

Vierke, Clarissa
The Making of the ‘Classical’ Utenzi : a Consideration of the Early Editorial History of Tenzi ...
Lugha na fasihi katika karne ya ishirini na moja : kwa heshima ya marehemu Profesa Naoma Luchera Shitemi
Eldoret, Kenya : Moi University Press, 2017. - page 113-130

Vierke, Clarissa
Poetic Links across the Ocean : On Poetic ‘Translation’ as Mimetic Practice at the Swahili Coas ...
in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East volume 37 (2017) issue 2. - page 321-335
doi:10.1215/1089201x-4132941 ...

Reading Closely : Investigating Textuality in Afrophone Literatures
publ: Vierke, Clarissa; Veit-Wild, Flora
Research in African Literatures
2017

Vierke, Clarissa
"What Is There In My Speaking" : Re-Explorations of Language in Abdilatif Abdalla's Anthology o ...
in Research in African Literatures volume 48 (2017) issue 1. - page 135-157
doi:10.2979/reseafrilite.48.1.09 ...

2016

Vierke, Clarissa; Greven, Katharina
Critical Visions of the Future in Swahili Fiction
Dunia Yao - Utopia/Dystopia in Swahili Fiction : in Honour of Said A. M. Khamis
Köln : Köppe, 2016. - page 7-25 . - (Verbal Art and Documentary Literature in African Languages; 36)

Dunia Yao - Utopia/Dystopia in Swahili Fiction : in honour of Said A. M. Khamis
publ: Vierke, Clarissa; Greven, Katharina
Köln : Köppe, 2016 . - (Verbal Art and Documentary Literature in African Languages; 36)

Vierke, Clarissa
From across the Ocean : Considering Travelling Literary figurations as Part of Swahili Intellec ...
in Journal of African Cultural Studies volume 28 (2016) issue 2. - page 225-240
doi:10.1080/13696815.2015.1053800 ...

Vierke, Clarissa
The ‘Unhomely’ City : a Literary Figuration in Swahili Dystopian Literature
Dunia Yao - Utopia/Dystopia in Swahili Fiction : in Honour of Said A. M. Khamis
Cologne : Köppe, 2016. - page 75-91 . - (Verbal Art and Documentary Literature in African Languages; 36)

2015

Vierke, Clarissa
Comparing the Incomparable? on the poetic use of language in Swahili Hip-Hop and "Classical" Sw ...
Habari ya English? What about Kiswahili? : East Africa as a Literary and Linguistic Contact Zone
Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2015. - page 81 . - (Matatu; 46)

Vierke, Clarissa
Some Remarks on Poetic Aspects of Sheng
Youth language practices in Africa and beyond
Berlin : De Gruyter, 2015. - page 227-255 . - (Contributions to the Sociology of Language; 105)

2014

Vierke, Clarissa
Akhi patia kalamu : Writing Swahili Poetry in Arabic Script
Arabic Script in Africa : studies in the use of a writing system
Leiden : Brill, 2014. - page 319-342 . - (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics; 71)

Vierke, Clarissa
"Im Gebälk die Fledermäuse" : Figurationen der Vergänglichkeit und der Täuschung in der klassis ...
From the Tana River to Lake Chad : research in african oratures and literatures ; in memoriam Thomas Geider
Köln : Köppe, 2014. - page 285-309 . - (Mainzer Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung; 36)

Vierke, Clarissa
Zur Forschungsgeschichte der deutschen Afrikanistik, ihre Anfänge und Ausrichtung, am Beispiel ...
Afrikanische Deutschland-Studien und deutsche Afrikanistik
Würzburg : Königshausen und Neumann, 2014. - page 73-92

2013

Vierke, Clarissa
Préface : L'Histoire de la langue Swahili de David Massamba dans l'histoire de la recherche et ...
Histoire de la langue Swahili : de 50 à 1500 après J.-C.
Paris : Karthala, 2013. - page 5-16

Vierke, Clarissa
Préface: Localiser Histoire du Swahili de David Massamba dans le contexte des recherches et dan ...
Histoire de la langue swahili : de 50 à 1500 après J.-C. / David Massamba ; traduit du swahili par François Devenne
Paris , 2013

2012

Vierke, Clarissa
Mafumbo : Considering the Functions of Metaphorical Speech in Swahili Contexts
Selected Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference on African Linguistics : African languages in context
Somerville : Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 2012. - page 278-290
http://www.lingref.com/cpp/acal/42/paper2776.pdf

2011

Vierke, Clarissa
On the poetics of the Utendi : a critical edition of the nineteenth-century Swahili poem "Utend ...
Zürich, Lit, 2011(dissertation, 2010, )

Vierke, Clarissa
On the Poetics of the Utendi : A Critical Edition of the Nineteenth-Century Swahilin Poem "Uten ...
Berlin : LIT, 2011. - XVIII, 704 page . - (Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung; 50)

Speech Acts and Speech Events in African Languages
publ: Sommer, Gabriele; Vierke, Clarissa
Köln : Köppe, 2011 . - (Topics in Interdisciplinary African Studies; 23)

Vierke, Clarissa; Sommer, Gabriele
Speech Acts and Speech Events in African Languages
Speech Acts and Speech Events in African Languages
Köln : Köppe, 2011. - page 11-40 . - (Topics in Interdisciplinary African Studies; 23)

2010

Vierke, Clarissa
Between the Lines : Life and Work of the Lamuan Artist and Cultural Broker Muhamadi Kijuma
Muhamadi Kijuma : Texts from the Dammann Papers and other Collections
Köln : Köppe, 2010. - page 41-62 . - (Archiv afrikanistischer Manuskripte; 9)

Miehe, Gudrun; Vierke, Clarissa
Muhamadi Kijuma : texts from the Dammann papers and other collections
Köln : Köppe, 2010. - 532 page . - (Archiv afrikanistischer Manuskripte; 9)

2009

Vierke, Clarissa
Johann L. Krapf : His Life and Work in Context
Johann Ludwig Krapf : The Life and Work of a Missionary and Scholar-Traveller in Nineteenth-Century East Africa ; Proceedings of the Workshop on Life and Work of Johann Ludwig Krapf, Mombasa, September 11, 2007
Nairobi : Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, 2009. - page 28-49

Johann Ludwig Krapf : The Life and Work of a Missionary and Scholar-Traveller in Nineteenth-Cen ...
publ: Vierke, Clarissa
Nairobi : Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, 2009

rev.: Lenoble-Barth, Annie. 2009. In: Histoire & Missions Chrétiennes, 11: 190-191

Nabahany, Ahmed S.
Utenzi wa Mapisi ya Johann Ludwig Krapf wa Ujerumani : Poem about the Life of Johann Ludwig Kra ...
Johann Ludwig Krapf : The Life and Work of a Missionary and Scholar-Traveller in Nineteenth-Century East Africa ; Proceedings of the Workshop on Life and Work of Johann Ludwig Krapf, Mombasa, September 11, 2007.
Nairobi : Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, 2009. - page 14-26

Vierke, Clarissa
"Words do neither take roots not bear fruits in our country" : Johann Ludwig Krapf's Role as Pi ...
Johann Ludwig Krapf : The Life and Work of a Missionary and Scholar-Traveller in Nineteenth-Century East Africa ; Proceedings of the Workshop on Life and Work of Johann Ludwig Krapf, Mombasa, September 11, 2007
Nairobi : Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, 2009. - page 142-156

2007

Vierke, Clarissa
Of Plants and Women : A Working Edition of two Swahili Plant Poems
in Swahili Forum volume 14 (2007) . - page 27-80

2006

Vierke, Clarissa
Inkishafi kwa mara nyingine : Erste Schritte zu einer neuen Textedition
Zwischen Bantu und Burkina : Festschrift für Gudrun Miehe zum 65. Geburtstag
Köln : Köppe, 2006. - page 23-44

2004

Liyongo songs : Poems attributed to Fumo Liyongo
publ: Miehe, Gudrun; Abdalla, Abdilatif; Bhalo, Ahmad Nassir Juma; Nabahany, Ahmed; Baschiera, Angelica; Dittemer, Clarissa; Topan, Farouk; Abdulaziz, Mohamed H.; Khamis, Said A. M.; Omar, Yahya Ali; Al-Bakary, Zeina Mahmoud Fadhil
Köln : Köppe, 2004. - VIII, 230 page . - (Archiv afrikanistischer Manuskripte; 7)
https://www.koeppe.de/titel_liyongo-songs