Oral Literature Performance In Southern Africa
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Oral Literature Performance in Southern Africa
Author | : Duncan Brown |
Publsiher | : James Currey Publishers |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : IND:30000066063532 |
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This work draws together contributions from literary studies, anthropology, enthnomusicology and African language studies in an analysis of the complex functioning of oral texts and models in differing contexts. The work examines the continuing role of orality in modern society, the adaptation of oral models to printed forms, and the ability of oral forms to talk back to the technology of print.
Oral Literary Performance in Africa
Author | : Nduka Otiono,Chiji Akọma |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2021-05-31 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781000397536 |
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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.
Oral Studies in Southern Africa
Author | : H. C. Groenewald |
Publsiher | : Human Sciences Research |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : IND:30000027319684 |
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The authors give a glimpse of the rich variety of oral traditions encountered in the southern African region and touch on a number of disciplines that investigate these traditions. The book reminds us that there are millions of people who do not have direct access to the media. These people are reliant on - and highly proficient in - their own oral traditions, through which they and their forefathers provided education and entertainment, long before the advent of the written word.
Oral Literature in Africa
Author | : Ruth Finnegan |
Publsiher | : Open Book Publishers |
Total Pages | : 614 |
Release | : 2012-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781906924706 |
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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.
Orality Literacy and Colonialism in Southern Africa
Author | : Jonathan A. Draper |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789004130869 |
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Literacy is essentially about the control of information, memory, and belief, and with colonialism in Southern Africa came the Bible and text-based literacy monitored by missionaries and colonial authorities. Old and new oral traditions, however, are beyond the control of empire and often carry the resistance, hopes, and dreams of colonized people. The essays in this volume recover aspects of Southern Africa's rich oral tradition. The authors, from disciplines such as anthropology, African literature, and biblical studies, delineate some of the contours of the indigenous knowledge systems which sustained resistance to colonialism and today provide resources for postapartheid society in Southern Africa. Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)
African Oral Literature
Author | : Russell Kaschula |
Publsiher | : New Africa Books |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1919876073 |
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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.
Oral Traditions in Southern Africa Aesthetics language and literature
Author | : Steven Phaniso Chinombo Moyo,Tobias W. C. Sumaili,James A. Moody |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Folk literature |
ISBN | : UVA:X001616828 |
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Introduction to African Oral Literature and Performance
Author | : Bayo Ogunjimi,Abdul Rasheed Na'allah,Abdul Rasheed Naʼallah |
Publsiher | : Africa World Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1592211518 |
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Rev. ed. of: Introduction to African oral literature. c1991.