Ethnosensitive Dimensions Of African Oral Literature

Author : Ebeogu, Afam
Publisher : African Heritage Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781940729190

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Ethnosensitive Dimensions of African Oral Literature by Ebeogu, Afam Pdf

Ethnosensitive Dimensions of African Oral Literature: Igbo Perspectives is a collection of nineteen essays spanning all genres of African Oral literature, from the poetic genre to the rhetorical genre. Part One of the book is introductory, and includes three essays that are of a general kind, touching all aspects of the genres, while Part Two includes six essays concerned with the poetic genre. Part Three, made up of two essays and concern the prose genre while Part Four, of two essays, examines the drama genre. Part Five, made up of three essays, addresses the rhetorical genre, and Part Six has three essays that cut across all the genres. The contributions examine the implications of ethnocentric imperatives of oral literature in relation to nationalistic demands.

Author : Akintunde Akinyemi,Toyin Falola
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1041 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030555177

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The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore by Akintunde Akinyemi,Toyin Falola Pdf

This handbook offers the most comprehensive, analytic, and multidisciplinary study of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and the African Diaspora to date. Preeminent scholars Akintunde Akinyemi and Toyin Falola assemble a team of leading and rising stars across African Studies research to retrieve and renew the scholarship of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and the Diaspora just as critical concerns about their survival are pushed to the forefront of the field. With five sections on the central themes within orality and folklore – including engagement ranging from popular culture to technology, methods to pedagogy – this handbook is an indispensable resource to scholars, students, and practitioners of oral traditions and folklore preservation alike. This definitive reference is the first to provide detailed, systematic discussion, and up-to-date analysis of African oral traditions and folklore.

Author : Daniel Hammett,Laura S. Martin,Izuu Nwankwọ
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781529219722

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Humour and Politics in Africa by Daniel Hammett,Laura S. Martin,Izuu Nwankwọ Pdf

Analyses of humour often focus primarily on the Global North, with little consideration for examples and practices from elsewhere. This book provides a vital contribution to humour theory by developing a Global South perspective. Taking a wide-ranging view across the whole of the continent, the book examines the relationship between humour and politics in Africa. It considers the context of the production and reception of humour in African contexts and argues that humour is more than just symbolic. Moving beyond the idea of humour as a mode of resistance, the book investigates the ‘political work’ that humour does and explores the complex entanglements in which the politics, practices and performances of humour are located.

Author : Izuu Nwankwọ
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783838216089

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Stand-up Comedy in Africa by Izuu Nwankwọ Pdf

African cultural productions of humour have increased even in the face of myriad economic foibles and social upheavals. For instance, from the 1990s, stand-up comedy emerged across the continent and has maintained a pervasive presence since then. Its specificities are related to contemporary economic and political contexts and are also drawn from its pre-colonial history, that of joking forms and relationships, and orality. Izuu Nwankwọ's fascinating collected volume offers a transnational appraisal of this unique art form spanning different nations of the continent and its diasporas. The book engages variously with jokesters, their materials, the mediums of dissemination, and the cultural value(s) and relevance of their stage work, encompassing the form and content of the practice. Its ruling theoretical perspective comes from theatre and performance, cultural studies, linguistics, and literary studies.

Author : Izuu Nwankw?
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781920033873

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Yabbing and Wording by Izuu Nwankw? Pdf

Yabbing and Wording: The artistry of Nigerian stand-up comedy is a long-overdue academic interrogation of the novel stand-up practice in Nigeria as performance. 'Yabbing' comes from the Nigerian Pidgin English verb, 'yab', which means a satirical jibe thrown at individuals, groups or institutions. Nigeria's Fela Anikulapo-Kuti used this effectively in his recorded and live music performances against successive military regimes. 'Wording' derives from the English term 'word' and refers to a game in which parties exchange insults. It is a modern-day coinage for traditional forms of joking that existed across Nigeria and elsewhere in precolonial times. In this book, Nwankw? identifies 'yabbing' and 'wording' as outstanding indigenous elements within contemporary stand-up practice in Nigeria. On the one hand, these local joking patterns inform how comedians fashion their narratives. On the other, they mitigate offence and how the audience responds to ridicule in joke performance venues. The book's strength is its academic perspective and the inclusion of as many examples of stand-up and comedians as possible, to give a panoramic view of the practice. It also traces the historical path of the development of professional stand-up comedy in Nigeria. Its closing chapters detail the global outreach of Nigerian stand-up while also anticipating its future developments.

Author : Robert Squillace,Angela Jane Weisl
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843847038

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Medievalisms in a Global Age by Robert Squillace,Angela Jane Weisl Pdf

Discusses contemporary medievalism in studies ranging from Brazil to West Africa, from Manila to New York. Across the world, revivals of medieval practices, images, and tales flourish as never before. The essays collected here, informed by approaches from Global Studies and the critical discourse on the concept of a "Global Middle Ages", explore the many facets of contemporary medievalism: post-colonial responses to the enforced dissemination of Western medievalisms, attempts to retrieve pre-modern cultural traditions that were interrupted by colonialism, the tentative forging of a global "medieval" imaginary from the world's repository of magical tales and figures, and the deployment across borders of medieval imagery for political purposes. The volume is divided into two sections, dealing with "Local Spaces" and "Global Geographies". The contributions in the first consider a variety of medievalisms tied to particular places across a broad geography, but as part of a larger transnational medievalist dynamic. Those in the second focus on explicitly globalist medievalist phenomena whether concerning the projection of a particular medievalist trope across borders or the integration of "medieval" pasts from different parts of the globe in a contemporary incarnation of medievalism. A wide range of topics are addressed, from Japanese manga and Arthurian tales to The O-Trilogy of Maurice Gee, Camus, and Dungeons and Dragons.

Author : Russell Kaschula
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : Open Book Publishers
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 45,6 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 : African Literature Association. Meeting,Kofi Anyidoho
Publisher : Three Continents
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : African literature
ISBN : UCAL:B4422044

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Interdisciplinary Dimensions of African Literature by African Literature Association. Meeting,Kofi Anyidoho Pdf

Author : Wasamba, Peter
Publisher : University of Nairobi Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : Ruth H. Finnegan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : African literature
ISBN : UCAL:B4931140

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Oral Literature in Africa by Ruth H. Finnegan Pdf

This book is based only on the more obvious sources and is intended as an introduction, not as a comprehensive account. Only some examples are given from a huge field and experts in particular areas will be able to point to exceptions and omissions. Some of the conclusions too may turn out to be controversial; indeed the author hopes to stimulate further publications and study. On each chapter and each section more research could take the subject much further. But in spite of these limitations, the general purpose of the book will be fulfilled to show that African oral literature is a subject worthy of study and interest, and to provoke further research in this fascinating but too often neglected field.

Author : Nduka Otiono,Chiji Akọma
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 53,7 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 : Ce, Chin,Smith, Charles
Publisher : Handel Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789783603592

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Oral Tradition in African Literature by Ce, Chin,Smith, Charles Pdf

This study of oral tradition in African literature is borne from the awareness that African verbal arts still survive in works of discerning writers and in the conscious exploration of its tropes, perspectives, philosophy and consciousness, its complementary realism, and ontology, for the delineation of authentic African response to memory, history and other possible comparisons with modern existence such as witnessed in recent developments of the African novel. In this series we have strived to adopt innovative and multilayered perspectives on orality or indigeneity and its manifestations on contemporary African and new literatures. These studies use multi-faceted theories of orality which discuss and deconstruct notions of history, truth-claims and identity-making, not excluding gender and genealogy (cultural and biological) studies in African contexts.

Author : Daniela Merolla,Jan Jansen,Kamal Naït-Zerrad
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9783643901309

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Multimedia Research and Documentation of Oral Genres in Africa by Daniela Merolla,Jan Jansen,Kamal Naït-Zerrad Pdf

This book approaches a central concern of oral literature studies worldwide, with a special focus on Africa: how to deal with oral genres in a world where new technologies have become available to more and more people? As the book asserts, what is new is that the spotlight is directed towards (old and new) "interlocutors" who cooperate in the making of technologized oral genres in an increasingly technologized world. Their interactions affect the performance, as well as research - their roles and positions raise methodological and ethical questions particularly when local/national identities and commercial interests are at stake. (Series: African Studies / Afrikanische Studien - Vol. 45)

Author : Bayo Ogunjimi,Abdul Rasheed Naʼallah
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : IND:30000115593547

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Introduction to African Oral Literature and Performance by Bayo Ogunjimi,Abdul Rasheed Naʼallah Pdf

Rev. ed. of: Introduction to African oral literature. c1991.