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Indigenous heritage in african literature / Smith and Ce [ed.].
- Format:
- Book
- 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 (194 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Nigeria, West Africa : African Library of Critical Writing, [2015]
- Summary:
- This edition commits to the depths of black identities in modern black texts.The cultural reclamation of an African origin and/or roots as tied to the solemn remembrance of the Ancestor has demanded the intense attention of enlightened black writers for the social and psychic revaluation of their generation and others that follow.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Introduction - Indigenous Heritage in African Literature
- Chapter 1 - Storytelling and Human Development
- African Storytelling and Human Development
- The Wise King
- Development Values of Storytelling
- The Storyteller as a Developer
- Stage and Environment in African Storytelling
- Chapter 2 - Female Bonding in Black Literature
- Chapter 3 - Insigamigani (Heroic) Traditions
- Heroism in Rwandan Mythology
- Heroic Models in Rwandese Insigamigani texts
- The Symbolism and Imagery of Insigamigami Texts
- The Ethic of Insigamigani Texts
- Chapter 4 - Rumuji Women's Dance
- Women in Colonial / Post-Colonial Period
- Women's Voice in Pre-Colonial Communities
- The Dance: Origin / Nomenclature
- Rumuji Dance Performance
- Chapter 5 - Time and the Traditional Palimpsest
- The "Black Hole" in Africa History and Literature
- Palimpsestic Time as Anti Post-colonialism
- Images of Slave Trade and the African Sentiment
- Chapter 6 - Poetics of African Naming
- Naming and Collective Consciousness
- Parodying Transformations
- Chapter 7 - Proverbs in Ojaide's Contexts
- Chapter 8 - Igbo traditional Morality
- Tradition and Morality
- Crime and Punishment
- Igbo Moral Philosophy
- Traditional vs Western Penal Systems
- Chapter 9 - Naming in Esanland
- Chapter 10 - Rhythms: in Honour of Achebe
- Notes and Bibliography
- Back cover.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 3, 2016).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9789783703667
- 9783703668
- OCLC:
- 927973344
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