ISBN:
9789042038110
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (402 p)
Edition:
2014
Series Statement:
Matatu 42
Series Statement:
Matatu
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Performing wisdom
DDC:
808.59
Keywords:
Folklore -- Uganda
;
Uganda -- Social life and customs
;
Folklore ; Uganda
;
Uganda ; Social life and customs
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Uganda
;
Sprichwort
;
Literatur
Abstract:
This is the third collection produced by members of a six-year research project, funded by the NUFU (Norwegian Programme for Development, Research, and Education), whose concern was to find, preserve, and analyse 'orature' - spoken forms of all kinds, both their unique qualities and their equivalence in importance to 'literature'. A major focus was the ways in which forms of orature can be made relevant to the demands of rapidly developing nations faced with insistent problems (HIV/AIDS, administrative needs, shifts in social and familial structure, the changing roles of women).Both innovative
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Folklore and Cultural Memory: Promises and Pitfalls; Survival of the Fittest and Stories of Cannibalism; Mythical Implications in the OriginStories of the Baganda and Bagishu; The Concept of Heroism Among the Bunyoro; Traditional Leadership Wisdoms and TheirContemporary Parallels: The Madi of Uganda; Audience Perspectives on the MusicFestivals Phenomenon in Buganda; Proverbial Imagery in ContemporaryPolitical Discourse in Uganda; Riddling Among the Banyankoreand Baganda in Uganda
Description / Table of Contents:
The Popular Form and Structureof Riddle Discourse in LusogaThe Potential Role of Oraturein Fighting the Spread of HIV/AIDS; ""Mudo"": The Soga 'Little Red Riding Hood'; Transplanting the Pumpkin: Folktales in NewMedia Formats for Children's Instruction; 'Heed my Voice': Children's Songin the Wake of Child Sacrifice; Afterword: Ancestral Voices Prophesying; Marketplace; Achebe's Fiction and the Changing Generation ofNigerian Women: Towards a Paradigm Shift in Leadership; Lazarus, Noah, and the Enunciation of theResurrection Mythos in Soyinka's The Interpreters
Description / Table of Contents:
The Àbikú Mystique: The Metaphor of Subversive Narrative in Buchi Emecheta's KehindeRichard Maduku's Kokoro Compound: A Postmodern Reading; The Violation of Women's Human Rights:Transformative Processes in Julie Okoh's Edewedeand Stella 'Dia Oyedepo's Brain Has No Gender; The Fatal Voyage: Colonialism as Tragedyin Steve Chimombo's Writing; ""The Religion of the Dream"": Colonial Myths and the Epistemology of Power in Alain Mabanckou's Bleu blanc rouge; Creative Writing; Born to Run; Three Poems; Reviews; Up Jumped a Jumbie; Destructive Deluge; Books Received; Notes on Contributors
Description / Table of Contents:
Notes for Contributors
Note:
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