ISBN:
9780367482145
,
9780367630195
Language:
English
Pages:
xix, 280 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Routledge African studies 43
Series Statement:
Routledge African studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
398.2096
Keywords:
Volksliteratur
;
Mündliche Überlieferung
;
Subsaharisches Afrika
;
Folk literature, African / History and criticism
;
Oral tradition / Africa
;
Oral interpretation
;
Subsaharisches Afrika
;
Mündliche Überlieferung
;
Volksliteratur
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : a heritage of African oral literary performance studies / Nduka Otiono and Chiji Akọma -- Elfrieda Binga's Berseba : constructing history and identity in a rural Namibian village / Hein Willemse -- "The crocodile's wife" : content and communication strategy in a tale of transformations / Ernst R. Wendland -- "The aged, the infirm and the effeminate" : rhetorical strategies in election rally songs from Nigeria and Lesotho / Chris Dunton -- Orality, masculinities and narrative strategies in The Arabian nights / Nduka Otiono -- Translation of African oral narrative-performances to the written word / Harold Scheub -- Asiyefunzwa na wazazi hufunzwa na mzuka : Swahili supernatural homiletics in an age of promiscuity / Aaron Rosenberg -- History, Mofolo's Chaka, and the postcolonial "bastard" / Obiwu -- Globalization of sango : Wole Soyinka's adaptation of Oedipus at Colonus / Femi Euba -- African verbal arts online : intermediality and "technauriture" / Daniela Merolla -- Writer-reader interaction in newspaper serial writing in Tanzania : the transformation of an oral story telling mode / Uta Reuster-Jahn -- The manipulation of verbal folklore genres in mass media communication / Rosaleen O.B. Nhlekisana -- Go Fetisa Lekoalo/beyond literature : orality, poetry and music in post-apartheid spoken word poetry / Raphael d'Abdon -- Isidore Okpewho : an intellectual portrait / Abiola Irele -- In praise of counter-hegemony : Okpewho and the other alternative discourse in African oral literature / James Tar Tsaaior -- Isidore Okpewho : scholarship, imaginative writing, and the assertion of the African sensibility / J.O.J. Nwachukwu-Agbada -- Choosing two sides equally : an interview with Isidore Okpewho / Chiji Akọma
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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