Somali Oral Poetry and the Failed She-Camel Nation State: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Deelley Poetry Debate (1979–1980)

Cover
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part One
	Chapter One: The Historical, Political and Social Context of Somali Oral Poetry
		Clan and political dynamics in a historical perspective
		The foundation of Somali pastoralist oral poetry
		The language of poetry: ideology and politics in language
		Hegemonic nomadic pastoralist poetry and the consequences of the politics of the language
		The contradiction between clan system culture and the discourse of national identity
		Tribalization and re-tribalization of the Somali politics. A colonial imprint?
		Clan ideology and its concept of state
		Military takeover of power and the subsequent policies of economic and social transformation
		The land question and the further marginalization of the agriculturalists
		Concomitant crises which have distraught the regime in Somalia
	Chapter Two: Poetry and Politics: The Immediate Content of The Deelley Poetry Debate
		Re-emergence of clan rivalries in Somali politics
		The call and the organization for the poetry debate
		The leading figures of the Deelley Poetry debate
	Chapter Three: The Choice of The Method
		Descriptive overview of the analysis of the Deelley Polytext
		Analytical strategies
Part Two
	Chapter Four: Analyses of Individual Poems
		Gaarriye, “No Refuge is offered by Tribalism”
		Hadraawi, “Unfulfilled”
		Idaajaa, “The Veils of Ignorance”
	Chapter Five: Metaphors
		Damal (The Damal-Tree Metaphor)
		AWR (The Male Camel Metaphor)
		Digo hoos ka nool (The Smouldering Dung Metaphor)
Part Three
	Chapter Six: Maandeeq: The She-Camel Nation-State
	Chapter Seven: Tribalism and The Tribal System
		The debate about tribalism and the tribal system
		Conclusive remarks on the debate on tribalism
	Chapter Eight: Summing Up
		The use of poetry as a medium of representation of the society
		Hegemony works from the start. The conceived society and the opacity of ideology
		The silence over agriculture and the absence of poets from the agriculturalist southern population
		The discourse of the Deelley
		The confirmation of ‘internal colonialism’ and the patrimonial concept of State in Somali culture
		Injustice as a fundamental question
		Freedom of expression and ideological censorship
		Language as the locus of ideology
		Ideologies in the discourse of Deelley
		The poets’ critique against the regime
Bibliography