Summary Watoto wa Maman’tilie (lit. Children of a Woman Street Food Vendor), a Swahili novel by a Tanzanian writer Emmanuel Mbogo, narrates the horrendous experiences of children who are forced to drop out of school and become street children. The novel also narrates their survival strategies in the periphery of the city. This article discusses how the novel uses musical figures including songs by renowned African popular musicians, Swahili local dances and music genres as semiotic resources to represent and criticise the urban forms of marginality and the resulting experiences of the urban underclass. It shows how the novel creatively uses the musical figures to construct the novelistic world and to offer a critique of urban marginality.

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Mbogo 斯瓦希里语小说 Watoto wa Maman'tilie 中达累斯萨拉姆城市边缘的音乐形象

总结 Watoto wa Maman'tilie（字面意思是街头食品商贩的孩子）是坦桑尼亚作家 Emmanuel Mbogo 的斯瓦希里语小说，讲述了被迫辍学成为街头儿童的儿童的可怕经历。小说还讲述了他们在城市边缘的生存策略。本文讨论了小说如何使用包括非洲著名流行音乐家的歌曲、斯瓦希里当地舞蹈和音乐流派在内的音乐人物作为符号资源来代表和批评城市边缘化形式以及由此产生的城市下层阶级的经历。它展示了小说如何创造性地利用音乐人物来构建小说世界，并对城市边缘性进行批判。