Kenyan Oral Narratives
Author : Wanjiku Mukabi Kabira
Publisher : East African Publishers
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 40,40 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Folk literature, Kenyan
ISBN : 9789966462305
Author : Wanjiku Mukabi Kabira
Publisher : East African Publishers
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 40,40 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Folk literature, Kenyan
ISBN : 9789966462305
Author : Kipuri, Naomi
Publisher : East African Educational Publishers
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 34,87 MB
Release : 2020-02-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9966461736
Oral Literature of the Maasai offers an extensive collection of types of oral literature: oral narratives; proverbs; riddles; and a variety of songs for different occasions. The versions in this book were collected by the author from a specific Maasai community in Kajiado County of Kenya. The author listened to many of the narratives and participated in many proverb and riddle telling sessions as she grew up in her Ilbissil village of Kajiado Central Sub-county. However, she recorded most of the examples of oral literature in the early seventies with the help of her mother, who performed the role of the oral artist. Many songs were recorded from live performances. The examples ring with individuality, while also revealing a comprehensive way of life of a people. The images in the literature reveal the concrete life of the Maasai – people living closely with their livestock and engaged in constant struggle with the environment. But like all important literature, the materials here ultimately reveal a people with its moral and spiritual concerns, grappling with questions of human values and relations, struggling for a better social order. This book recommends itself to the general reader. However, the book is more than this: it includes stimulating discussions of examples, as well as review questions and exercises. The book is highly recommended to students of oral literature at secondary school level and at the university.
Author : Ciarunji Chesaina
Publisher : East African Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 18,12 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789966464071
This is a new title from the Kenyan publisher who is publishing works of scholarship on the oral literature of the different groups in Kenya. The background is the rich repository in oral literature of the enduring wisdom and cultural values of the peoples of Africa. Within the proverbs and riddles, oral narratives and songs, philosophical and material cultures are captured and expressed. These ethnic-based oral literature titles seek to preserve this wisdom in the written form. The literature of the Embu and Mbeere of Eastern Kenya is fully explored here by a renowned scholar and writer on oral literature. She covers the historical and cultural background; genres of oral literature and their performance; form and style; and the social functions of oral literature. Literary texts examined are narratives, oral poetry, proverbs, and riddles and puzzles.
Author : Austin Bukenya
Publisher : University of Nairobi Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 20,15 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
This latest contribution of the Kenya Oral Literature Association to explorations in oral literature is multi-disciplinary in approach. It includes a wide-ranging selection of papers from twelve Kenyan literary scholars, linguists, educationists, material culture specialists, and historians. The central questions addressed are why oral literature should be taught, what should be included, and how it should be taught. Amongst the topics covered are translation problems, understanding proverbs, oral narrative as discourse, the use of audio visual aids in teaching, general and the politics of control, images of women in African oral literature, the relationship with material culture, and oral literature as part of oral traditions.
Author : Jane Awinja Nandwa
Publisher :
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 17,19 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Children
ISBN :
Author : Mutuota wa Kigotho
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,39 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Composition (Language arts)
ISBN :
Author : Wanjiku M. Kabira
Publisher : East African Publishers
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 29,53 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Folk artists
ISBN : 9789966461728
Author : Paul Kipchumba
Publisher :
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 50,13 MB
Release : 2017-10-28
Category :
ISBN : 9781973160069
A comprehensive and innovative collection of African oral traditions from among the Marakwet of Kenya
Author : Kenya Oral Literature Association
Publisher :
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 28,4 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Kenyan literature
ISBN :
Author : Mark Chetambe
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 47,29 MB
Release : 2012-07
Category :
ISBN : 9783659164231
The contemporary oral narrative is an evolving literary genre in Kenya.It has become increasingly popular with the Kenyan audience, especially after it was introduced in the Kenya School' and Colleges' Drama Festival. T.V and radio stations have embraced it as part of their entertainment menu. This book delves into the way the contemporary oral narrative in Kenya portrays the female character. Focusing on six oral narrative texts performed in the drama festival by six different institutions in Kenya, the author examines the images and roles that female charcters are cast in in these contemporary tales. The style that the narratives employ in presenting the female person is also analysed. Making it clear that the contemporary oral narrative differs from the traditional narrative in terms of composition and performance, the author observes that the contemporary tale needs to be reconstructed so that it can project a more favourable image of the female gender.