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Author : Ruth Finnegan
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781291990591
The latest edition of the acclaimed classic on an increasingly important continent
Author : Ruth Finnegan
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781906924706
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.
Author : B. W. Andrzejewski,S. Pilaszewicz,W. Tyloch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1985-11-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521256469
Although African literatures in English and French are widely known outside Africa, those in the African languages themselves have not received comparable attention. In this book a number have been selected for survey by fourteen specialist writers, providing the reader with an introduction to this very wide field and a body of reference material which includes extensive bibliographies and biographical information on African authors. Theoretical issues such as genre divisions are discussed in the essays and the historical, social and political forces at work in the creation and reception of African literature are examined. Literature is treated as an art whose medium is language, so that both the oral and written forms are encompassed. This book will be of value not only to readers concerned with the cultures of Africa but to all those with an interest in the literary phenomena of the world in general.
Author : Richard A. Spears
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1991-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780810109933
Collection of West African folktales drawn from prose narratives, proverbs, riddles, and songs.
Author : Sinfree Makoni,Anna Kaiper-Marquez,Lorato Mokwena
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000600131
This Handbook centers on language(s) in the Global South/s and the many ways in which both "language" and the "Global South" are conceptualized, theorized, practiced, and reshaped. Drawing on 31 chapters situated in diverse geographical contexts, and four additional interviews with leading scholars, this text showcases: Issues of decolonization Promotion of Southern epistemologies and theories of the Global South/s A focus on social/applied linguistics An added focus on the academy A nuanced understanding of global language scholarship. It is written for emerging and established scholars across the globe as it positions Southern epistemologies, language scholarship, and decolonial theories into scholarship surrounding multiple themes and global perspectives.
Author : Jonathan Chimakonam,Edwin Etieyibo
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781622733668
This collection is about composing thought at the level of modernism and decomposing it at the postmodern level where many cocks might crow with African philosophy as a focal point. It has two parts: part one is titled ‘The Journey of Reason in African Philosophy’, and part two is titled ‘African Philosophy and Postmodern Thinking’. There are seven chapters in both parts. Five of the essays are reprinted here as important selections while nine are completely new essays commissioned for this book. As their titles suggest, in part one, African philosophy is unfolded in the manifestation of reason as embedded in modern thought while in part two, it draws the effect of reason as implicated in the postmodern orientation. While part one strikes at what V. Y. Mudimbe calls the “colonising structure” or the Greco-European logo-phallo-euro-centricism in thought, part two bashes the excesses of modernism and partly valorises postmodernism. In some chapters, modernism is presented as an intellectual version of communalism characterised by the cliché: ‘our people say’. Our thinking is that the voice of reason is not the voice of the people but the voice of an individual. The idea of this book is to open new vistas for the discipline of African philosophy. African philosophy is thus presented as a disagreement discourse. Without rivalry of thoughts, Africa will settle for far less. This gives postmodernism an important place, perhaps deservedly more important than history of philosophy allocates to it. It is that philosophical moment that says ‘philosophers must cease speaking like gods in their hegemonic cultural shrines and begin to converse across borders with one another’. In this conversation, the goal for African philosophers must not be to find final answers but to sustain the conversation which alone can extend human reason to its furthermost reaches.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1044 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UFL:31262098716045
Author : Julia Rensing,Rizzo Lorena
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9783906927329
This book is a collection of essays written by emerging scholars at the University of Basel on the basis of their subjective encounters with a specific archival collection housed in the Basler Afrika Bibliographien in Basel. The Ernst and Ruth Dammann collection consists of around 8100 images, 750 audio recordings and numerous manuscripts, diaries and notes. The German couple conducted research on Namibian oral literatures and languages as they were spoken and performed across the country in the early 1950s. Based on in-depth engagement with the textual, visual and audio records assembled in this intricate collection, the authors of this book critically interrogated the implications of opening a colonial archive, exploring alternative ways of reading and understanding the historical material. As unique examples of close reading and listening, the essays propose creative ways of attending to the politics of race, gender, famine, ethnography, biography and fiction in colonial knowledge production.
Author : International Committee on Christian Literature for Africa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : African languages
ISBN : WISC:89081867525
Author : Robert Needham Cust
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : African languages
ISBN : HARVARD:HX4VRT
Author : Robert Needham Cust
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136372377
This volume I of three on series on Africa. It is part one and a look is a look at the old, extinct and mixed languages of Africa and was originally published in 1883.
Author : Albert S. Gérard
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004484900
Author : Aida Levy-Hussen
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781479890941
How to Read African American Literature offers a series of provocations to unsettle the predominant assumptions readers make when encountering post-Civil Rights black fiction. Foregrounding the large body of literature and criticism that grapples with legacies of the slave past, Aida Levy-Hussen’s argument develops on two levels: as a textual analysis of black historical fiction, and as a critical examination of the reading practices that characterize the scholarship of our time. Drawing on psychoanalysis, memory studies, and feminist and queer theory, Levy-Hussen examines how works by Toni Morrison, David Bradley, Octavia Butler, Charles Johnson, and others represent and mediate social injury and collective grief. In the criticism that surrounds these novels, she identifies two major interpretive approaches: “therapeutic reading” (premised on the assurance that literary confrontations with historical trauma will enable psychic healing in the present), and “prohibitive reading” (anchored in the belief that fictions of returning to the past are dangerous and to be avoided). Levy-Hussen argues that these norms have become overly restrictive, standing in the way of a more supple method of interpretation that recognizes and attends to the indirect, unexpected, inconsistent, and opaque workings of historical fantasy and desire. Moving beyond the question of whether literature must heal or abandon historical wounds, Levy-Hussen proposes new ways to read African American literature now.
Author : Elias Mpofu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781139498760
This volume advances a uniquely Afro-centric, sociocultural understanding of health maintenance and risk reduction in African cultural heritage populations. It unites a diverse group of leading African and Africanist scholars in an exploration of common cultural values in African heritage communities and their practical applications in contemporary counseling. The chapters highlight the prominent health issues faced in Africanist settings today and use real-world experiences to illustrate core lessons for effective community action. The approach spans complex cultural milieus, from diversity counseling to conflict resolution. Each chapter includes field-based experiential tasks, discussion boxes, research boxes and case studies, which serve as valuable resources in both coursework and casework. Counseling People of African Ancestry is an essential primer for community health workers, counselors and educators seeking a better understanding of African cultural heritage settings to promote community health, well-being and development.
Author : N. Gomia
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956727933
This book draws on years of rich empirical research on radio drama production in Cameroon to offer a strikingly new perspective in Development Theatre discourse in Africa. Chronicling the history and evolution of Development Theatre practice in Anglophone Africa and arguing for literary forms that address the basic everyday realities of ordinary people in a medium they understand, the book revisits the crucial question of utilitarian literature in a continent that continues to brandish a begging bowl even as it celebrates fifty years of independence. Radio Theatres inherent latitude to reach the masses in a manner and matter that they identify with makes of it an invaluable albeit often neglected sub-genre in the universe of Development Theatre. Reaching an enlarged audience through radio drama productions plays that address the rustic, ascetic and practical realities of the people is liberating. Through radio plays and their capacity to provide for an enormous degree of authenticity, ordinary people are able to enhance their self-esteem. Like main stream Development Theatre, Radio Drama sets out to address the concerns of all in an all-embracing approach that explores interactive learning characterized by continuous questioning of and adaptation to reality. It disparages the omniscience of the superstructure meant to be perceived as indispensable and all-knowing. As a medium of development communication with unique aesthetic qualities found in and not limited to sound and silence, Radio Drama creates events and condenses reality into dramatic constellations with a high sense of authenticity that invites its audience to participate in the creation process with a strong sense of direction in a story, a plot and a moral. This people-oriented culture re-animation process is the fertile ground for grassroots empowerment. It is the point of departure for feasible development initiatives that this book explores.