Contemporary Oral Literature Fieldwork

Author : Wasamba, Peter
Publisher : University of Nairobi Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789966792532

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Contemporary Oral Literature Fieldwork by Wasamba, Peter Pdf

Contemporary Oral Literature Fieldwork is based on rich research experience dating back to the 1990s. The book is written against the backdrop of Africa’s confusion with regard to the place of oral literature in the face of the rest of the world, where oral literature exists in conjunction with new literary forms. Wasamba argues that the oral and the written literatures are complementary literary forms. Throughout the work, the author underscores the universal dimension of oral literature as he demonstrates its particular attributes.

Author : Peter Wasamba
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789966792518

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Contemporary Oral Literature Fieldwork by Peter Wasamba Pdf

Contemporary Oral Literature Fieldwork is based on rich research experience dating back to the 1990s. The book is written against the backdrop of Africas confusion with regard to the place of oral literature in the face of the rest of the world, where oral literature exists in conjunction with new literary forms. Wasamba argues that the oral and the written literatures are complementary literary forms. Throughout the work, the author underscores the universal dimension of oral literature as he demonstrates its particular attributes.

Author : Mark Turin,Claire Wheeler,Eleanor Wilkinson
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781909254305

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Oral Literature in the Digital Age by Mark Turin,Claire Wheeler,Eleanor Wilkinson Pdf

Thanks to ever-greater digital connectivity, interest in oral traditions has grown beyond that of researcher and research subject to include a widening pool of global users. When new publics consume, manipulate and connect with field recordings and digital cultural archives, their involvement raises important practical and ethical questions. This volume explores the political repercussions of studying marginalised languages; the role of online tools in ensuring responsible access to sensitive cultural materials; and ways of ensuring that when digital documents are created, they are not fossilised as a consequence of being archived. Fieldwork reports by linguists and anthropologists in three continents provide concrete examples of overcoming barriers -- ethical, practical and conceptual -- in digital documentation projects. Oral Literature In The Digital Age is an essential guide and handbook for ethnographers, field linguists, community activists, curators, archivists, librarians, and all who connect with indigenous communities in order to document and preserve oral traditions.

Author : Sue-Ann Harding,OVIDI CARBONELL CORTES
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317368496

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The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Culture by Sue-Ann Harding,OVIDI CARBONELL CORTES Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Culture collects into a single volume thirty-two state-of-the-art chapters written by international specialists, overviewing the ways in which translation studies has both informed, and been informed by, interdisciplinary approaches to culture. The book's five sections provide a wealth of resources, covering both core issues and topics in the first part. The second part considers the relationship between translation and cultural narratives, drawing on both historical and religious case studies. The third part covers translation and social contexts, including the issues of cultural resistance, indigenous cultures and cultural representation. The fourth part addresses translation and cultural creativity, citing both popular fiction and graphic novels as examples. The final part covers translation and culture in professional settings, including cultures of science, legal settings and intercultural businesses. This handbook offers a wealth of information for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers working in translation and interpreting studies.

Author : Ruth Finnegan
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781906924706

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Oral Literature in Africa by Ruth Finnegan Pdf

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 : Isidore Okpewho
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1992-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 025320710X

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African Oral Literature by Isidore Okpewho Pdf

". . . its pages come alive with wonderful illustrative material coupled with sensitve and insightful commentary." —Reviews in Anthropology " . . . the scope, breadth, and lucidity of this excellent study confirm that Okpewho is undoubtedly the most important authority writing on African oral literature right now . . . " —Research in African Literatures "Truly a tour de force of individual scholarship . . . " —World Literature Today " . . . excellent . . . " —African Affairs " . . . a thorough synthesis of the main issues of oral literature criticism, as well as a grounding in experienced fieldwork, a wide-ranging theoretical base, and a clarity of argument rare among academics." —Multicultural Review "This is a breathtakingly ambitious project . . . " —Harold Scheub " . . . a definitive accounting of the evidence of living oral traditions in Africa today. Professor Okpewho's authority as an expert in this important new field is unrivaled." —Gregory Nagy "Isidore Okpewho's African Oral Literature is a marvelous piece of scholarship and wide-ranging research. It presents the most comprehensive survey of the field of oral literature in Africa." —Emmanuel Obiechina " . . . a tour de force of scholarship in which Okpewho casts his net across the African continent, searching for its verbal forms through voluminous recent writings and presents African oral literature in a new voice, proclaiming the literariness of African folklore." —Dan Ben-Amos "This is an outstanding book by a scholar whose work has already influenced how African literature should be conceived. . . . Professor Okpewho is a scholar with a special talent to nurture scholarship in others. After this work, African literature will never be the same." —Mazisi Kunene Isidore Okpewho, for many years Professor of English at the University of Ibadan, is one of the handful of African scholars who has facilitated the growth of African oral literature to its status today as a literary enterprise concerned with the artistic foundations of human culture. This comprehensive critical work firmly establishes oral literature as a landmark of high artistic achievement and situates it within the broader framework of contemporary African culture.

Author : Ruth Finnegan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134945399

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Oral Traditions and the Verbal Arts by Ruth Finnegan Pdf

Provides up-to-date guidance on how to approach the study of oral forms and their performances, examining both the practicalities of fieldwork and the methods by which oral texts and performances can be observed, collected and analysed.

Author : Karl Reichl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000409208

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The Oral Epic by Karl Reichl Pdf

This book focuses on the performance of oral epics and explores the significance of performance features for the interpretation of epic poetry. The leading question of the book is how the socio-cultural context of performance and the various performance elements contribute to the meaning of oral epics. This is a question which not only concerns epics collected from living oral tradition, but which is also of importance for the understanding of the epics of antiquity and the Middle Ages which originated and flourished in an oral milieu. The book is based on fieldwork in the still vibrant oral traditions of the Turkic peoples of Central Asia and Siberia. The discussion combines fieldwork with theory; it is not limited to Turkic epics but branches out into other oral traditions.

Author : Russell Kaschula
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1919876073

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African Oral Literature by Russell Kaschula Pdf

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.

Author : Ruth Finnegan
Publisher : Saint Philip Street Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 101328819X

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Oral Literature in Africa by Ruth Finnegan Pdf

Ruth Finneganâ 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 Finneganâ 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. Oral Literature in Africa has been accessed by hundreds of readers in over 60 different countries, including Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda and numerous other African countries. The digital editions of this book are free to download thanks to the generous support of interested readers and organisations, who made donations using the crowd-funding website Unglue.it. Oral Literature in Africa is part of our World Oral Literature Series in conjunction with the World Oral Literature Project. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Author : Nduka Otiono,Chiji Akọma
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000397536

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Oral Literary Performance in Africa by Nduka Otiono,Chiji Akọma Pdf

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.

Author : Russell H. Kaschula
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : African literature (English)
ISBN : UVA:X002423583

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Foundations in Southern African Oral Literature by Russell H. Kaschula Pdf

A collection of papers, reprinted from Bantu Studies and African Studies, offers textual material and analyses of oral literature from southern Africa. The three issues of text, genre and interpretation receive equal attention within the volume. The editor's intention is to provide readers with an opportunity to explore various literary genres produced in southern African communities - through texts and through scholarly analysis. The transformation of literary genres is also addressed, emphasizing the ways in which oral performance is shaped by social forces. The manipulation of language and oral art forms for political gain is not new. society; praise poetry; songs; folktales and wisdom lore; and riddles. In each case, articles have been selected to reveal the historical and comparative bases of oral literary studies. points to new directions in the analysis of oral literature and the need for a broader contextualization of southern African studies. The collection of essays provides the groundwork for further exploratory studies across cultures and genres, not only in Africa, but in the world at large. At the same time, oral literature, and more specifically African oral literature, needs to be liberated in order to interact with other scholarly disciplines. the original writings of the essays in this volume. It is these very changes which provide research material for scholars in oral studies. At the same time, all students of the discipline must look at these seminal studies in order to appreciate the traditional bases of oral performance today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3008 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UOM:39015078261867

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Book Review Digest by Anonim Pdf

Author : Masheti Masinjila,Duncan Okoth-Okombo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Folk literature
ISBN : IND:30000044453839

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Teaching Oral Literature by Masheti Masinjila,Duncan Okoth-Okombo Pdf

Author : Ngwabi Bhebe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Africa, Southern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112860486

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Oral Tradition in Southern Africa by Ngwabi Bhebe Pdf