Oral tradition in african literature / Smith and Ce [ed.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Charles, editor.

Ce, Chinenye, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African literature--21st century--History and criticism.

African literature.

African literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (196 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Nigeria, West Africa : African Library of Critical Writing, [2015]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction

1. Re-visioning African writing

Issues in oral tradition

2. The folktale in Achebe's fictions

Oral dynamics of things fall apart

3. Orality in the works of Ousmane Sembene

4. Oral multidimensional collage in recent fiction

5. The Mythic context of Le Jujubier du patriarche

6. Oral performance among the Graffi

Chat

8. Sembene : last chat with an African griot.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 3, 2016).

ISBN:

9789783703681

9783703684

OCLC:

927970109