Performing wisdom : proverbial lore in modern Ugandan society / edited by Dominica Dipio and Stuart Sillars ; Rose Kirumira, cover image ; contributors Gordon Collier [and five others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dipio, Dominica, editor.

Sillars, Stuart, editor.

Kirumira, Rose, cover designer.

Collier, Gordon, contributor.

Series:

Matatu ; Number 42.

Matatu ; Number 42

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folklore--Uganda.

Folklore.

Uganda--Social life and customs.

Uganda.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (402 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands : Rodofi, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the third collection produced by members of a six-year research project, funded by the NUFU (Norwegian Programme for Development, Research, and Education), whose concern was to find, preserve, and analyse 'orature' - spoken forms of all kinds, both their unique qualities and their equivalence in importance to 'literature'. A major focus was the ways in which forms of orature can be made relevant to the demands of rapidly developing nations faced with insistent problems (HIV/AIDS, administrative needs, shifts in social and familial structure, the changing roles of women).Both innovative

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Folklore and Cultural Memory: Promises and Pitfalls; Survival of the Fittest and Stories of Cannibalism; Mythical Implications in the OriginStories of the Baganda and Bagishu; The Concept of Heroism Among the Bunyoro; Traditional Leadership Wisdoms and TheirContemporary Parallels: The Madi of Uganda; Audience Perspectives on the MusicFestivals Phenomenon in Buganda; Proverbial Imagery in ContemporaryPolitical Discourse in Uganda; Riddling Among the Banyankoreand Baganda in Uganda

The Popular Form and Structureof Riddle Discourse in LusogaThe Potential Role of Oraturein Fighting the Spread of HIV/AIDS; ""Mudo"": The Soga 'Little Red Riding Hood'; Transplanting the Pumpkin: Folktales in NewMedia Formats for Children's Instruction; 'Heed my Voice': Children's Songin the Wake of Child Sacrifice; Afterword: Ancestral Voices Prophesying; Marketplace; Achebe's Fiction and the Changing Generation ofNigerian Women: Towards a Paradigm Shift in Leadership; Lazarus, Noah, and the Enunciation of theResurrection Mythos in Soyinka's The Interpreters

The Àbikú Mystique: The Metaphor of Subversive Narrative in Buchi Emecheta's KehindeRichard Maduku's Kokoro Compound: A Postmodern Reading; The Violation of Women's Human Rights:Transformative Processes in Julie Okoh's Edewedeand Stella 'Dia Oyedepo's Brain Has No Gender; The Fatal Voyage: Colonialism as Tragedyin Steve Chimombo's Writing; ""The Religion of the Dream"": Colonial Myths and the Epistemology of Power in Alain Mabanckou's Bleu blanc rouge; Creative Writing; Born to Run; Three Poems; Reviews; Up Jumped a Jumbie; Destructive Deluge; Books Received; Notes on Contributors

Notes for Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 27, 2014).

ISBN:

94-012-1058-6

OCLC:

879551438