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The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore

The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore
Author: Akintunde Akinyemi
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 1041
Release: 2021-03-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030555178

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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.


African Oral Literature

African Oral Literature
Author: Russell Kaschula
Publisher: New Africa Books
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2001
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781919876078

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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 Literary Performance in Africa

Oral Literary Performance in Africa
Author: Nduka Otiono
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2021-05-31
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 100039753X

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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 Literature & Performance in Southern Africa

Oral Literature & Performance in Southern Africa
Author: Duncan Brown
Publisher: Ohio University Center for International Studies
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN:

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This book draws together contributions from literary studies, anthropology, ethnomusicology, and African language studies to analyze the complex functioning of oral texts and models in differing contexts. It 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. Subjects include: orality and Christianity; the role of orality in the liberation struggle; domestic predicaments by Kiba performers from the Northern Province; Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom, and the image of the book in Xhosa oral poetry.


Xhosa Oral Poetry

Xhosa Oral Poetry
Author: Jeff Opland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1983-12-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521241137

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This book, first published in 1983, was the first detailed study of the Xhosa oral poetry tradition.