Power, Marginality and African Oral Literature
Author : Graham Furniss
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 10,55 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9781868142941
Power, Marginality and African Oral Literature
Author : Graham Furniss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,70 MB
Release : 1995-09-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521480611
Book Description
African oral literature, like other forms of popular culture, is not merely a form of entertainment but a medium for commenting on contemporary social and political events. It can also be a significant agent of change capable of directing, provoking, preventing, overturning, and recasting social reality. The contributors to this collection are anthropologists, linguists, historians, and ethnomusicologists, who present fresh material on oral literature to paint a lively picture of current real life situations in Africa.
Oral Literary Performance in Africa
Author : Nduka Otiono
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 10,29 MB
Release : 2021-05-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 100039753X
Book Description
This book delivers an admirably comprehensive and rigorous analysis of African oral literatures and performance. Gathering insights from distinguished scholars in the field, the book provides a range of contemporary interdisciplinary perspectives in the study of oral literature and its transformations in everyday life, fiction, poetry, popular culture, and postcolonial politics. Topics discussed include folklore and folklife; oral performance and masculinities; intermediated orality, modern transformations, and globalisation; orality and mass media; spoken word and imaginative writing. The book also addresses research methodologies and the thematic and theoretical trajectories of scholars of African oral literatures, looking back to the trailblazing legacies of Ruth Finnegan, Harold Scheub, and Isidore Okpewho. Ambitious in scope and incisive in its analysis, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of African literatures and oral performance as well as to general readers interested in the dynamics of cultural production.
African Oral Literature
Author : Russell Kaschula
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 29,58 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781919876078
Book Description
Throughout Africa, oral literature is flourishing, though it is perceived by some as anachronistic to the modern world. This work refutes this idea in its entirety by presenting 22 chapters, which firmly place the study of oral literature within contemporary African existence. The study analyzes how oral literature relates to media, music, technology, text, gender, religion, power, politics and globalization.
Ethnosensitive Dimensions of African Oral Literature
Author : Ebeogu, Afam
Publisher : African Heritage Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 35,25 MB
Release : 2017-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 194072919X
Book Description
Ethnosensitive Dimensions of African Oral Literature: Igbo Perspectives is a collection of nineteen essays spanning all genres of African Oral literature, from the poetic genre to the rhetorical genre. Part One of the book is introductory, and includes three essays that are of a general kind, touching all aspects of the genres, while Part Two includes six essays concerned with the poetic genre. Part Three, made up of two essays and concern the prose genre while Part Four, of two essays, examines the drama genre. Part Five, made up of three essays, addresses the rhetorical genre, and Part Six has three essays that cut across all the genres. The contributions examine the implications of ethnocentric imperatives of oral literature in relation to nationalistic demands.
The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore
Author : Akintunde Akinyemi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1041 pages
File Size : 10,47 MB
Release : 2021-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3030555178
Book Description
This handbook offers the most comprehensive, analytic, and multidisciplinary study of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and the African Diaspora to date. Preeminent scholars Akintunde Akinyemi and Toyin Falola assemble a team of leading and rising stars across African Studies research to retrieve and renew the scholarship of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and the Diaspora just as critical concerns about their survival are pushed to the forefront of the field. With five sections on the central themes within orality and folklore – including engagement ranging from popular culture to technology, methods to pedagogy – this handbook is an indispensable resource to scholars, students, and practitioners of oral traditions and folklore preservation alike. This definitive reference is the first to provide detailed, systematic discussion, and up-to-date analysis of African oral traditions and folklore.
Introduction to African Oral Literature and Performance
Author : Bayo Ogunjimi
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 50,28 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781592211517
Book Description
Rev. ed. of: Introduction to African oral literature. c1991.
Oral Literature in Africa
Author : Ruth Finnegan
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 31,17 MB
Release : 2012-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1906924708
Book Description
Ruth Finnegan's Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fieldwork, the study traces the history of storytelling across the continent of Africa. This revised edition makes Finnegan's ground-breaking research available to the next generation of scholars. It includes a new introduction, additional images and an updated bibliography, as well as its original chapters on poetry, prose, "drum language" and drama, and an overview of the social, linguistic and historical background of oral literature in Africa. This book is the first volume in the World Oral Literature Series, an ongoing collaboration between OBP and World Oral Literature Project. A free online archive of recordings and photographs that Finnegan made during her fieldwork in the late 1960s is hosted by the World Oral Literature Project (http: //www.oralliterature.org/collections/rfinnegan001.html) and can also be accessed from publisher's website.
Singing Ideas
Author : Tríona Ní Shíocháin
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 31,72 MB
Release : 2017-12-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 1785337688
Book Description
Considered by many to be the greatest Irish song poet of her generation, Máire Bhuí Ní Laeire (Yellow Mary O’Leary; 1774–1848) was an illiterate woman unconnected to elite literary and philosophical circles who powerfully engaged the politics of her own society through song. As an oral arts practitioner, Máire Bhuí composed songs whose ecstatic, radical vision stirred her community to revolt and helped to shape nineteenth-century Irish anti-colonial thought. This provocative and richly theorized study explores the re-creative, liminal aspect of song, treating it as a performative social process that cuts to the very root of identity and thought formation, thus re-imagining the history of ideas in society.
Xhosa Oral Poetry
Author : Jeff Opland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 23,63 MB
Release : 1983-12-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521241137
Book Description
This book, first published in 1983, was the first detailed study of the Xhosa oral poetry tradition.
