The Palgrave handbook of African oral traditions and folklore / edited by Akintunde Akinyemi, Toyin Falola.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Akínyẹmí, Akíntúndé, editor.

Falola, Toyin, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folklore--Africa.

Folklore.

Africa.

Oral tradition--Africa.

Oral tradition.

Folk literature, African--History and criticism.

Folk literature, African.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Handbook of African oral traditions and folklore

African oral traditions and folklore

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Contexts and Practicalities

1. Creativity and Performance in Oral Poetry / Gcdini G. Darah

2. Concept and Components of Performance / Anya Ude Egwu

3. The Role of the Audience in Oral Performance / Clement Adeniyi Akangbe

4. Orality, History and Historical Reconstruction / Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi

5. Insights from Festivals and Carnivals / Mercy Ayo Fasehun

6. Field work and Data Collection / Akeem Oyebamiji

7. Documenting Oral Genres / James Essegbey

8. Retrospect and Prospects of Oral Traditions and Folklore / Oluwole Coker

pt. II Themes, Tropes and Types

9. Epic Tradition / Tal Tamari

10. Divination and Divinatory Systems / Omotade Adegbindin

11. Myth and Mythology / Oluwatoyin Bimpe Jegede

12. The Dirge / Felicia Ohwovoriole

13. Dreams Within the Context of the Basotho Culture / Anastacia Sara Motsei

14. Drum Language and Literature / Mobolanle Ebunoluwa Sotunsa

15. Oratory and Rhetoric: Praise Poetry / David Adu-Amankwah

16. Proverbs, Naming, and Other Forms of Veiled Speech / Cecile Leguy

17. Oral Poetry: Monyoncho's Orature and Abagusii Culture of Non-violence / Alfred Nyagaka Nyamwange

18. Ifa: A Womanist Deconstruction of Gender Politics / Olusegun Adekoya

19. A Repertoire of Bukusu Nonverbal Communicative System: Some Gender Differences / Augustine Agwuele

20. Oral Tradition and Identity / Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler

21. The Figure of the Child in Oral Literature / Lere Adeyemi

22. War Songs: Slavery, Oral Tradition, and Identity Construction / Emmanuel Saboro

23. Tracing the Voice of Protest in Selected Oral Literature / Russell H. Kaschula

24. Oral Literature, Liberty and Political Change / Enongene Mirabeau Sone

25. Multiculturalism, Orality. and Folklore in South Africa / Pule Alexis Phindane

26. Fichee-Cambalaalla of the Sidaama People / Tafesse Matewos Karo

27. Orality Indexing: Cultural Benefits of Male Circumcision / Lesibana J. Rafapa

pt. III Transformation and Transposition

28. To Tongue the Body to Body the Tongue: Problematizing the Translation of Oral Traditions / Luan Staphorst

29. Musical Transformation / Samuel Elikem Kwame Nyamuame

30. African Folklore: The Case of Others and Dismas Nyangau's Popular Music / Alfred Nyagaka Nyamwange

31. When Witches and Wizards Are Narrators: Oral Autobiography, Magical Realism, and Memory / Adetayo Alabi

32. Absorption of Oral Tradition and Folklore Narrative in Written Fictional Works: Paul Lomami-Tchibamba, Ngandu Nkashama and Alain Mabanckou / Kasongo Mulenda Kapanga

33. Oral Traditions in Selected Stage Performances / Rasheedah Liman

34. From the Hybrid to the Transcultural: A Comparative Study on Orality in the Poetry of Contemporary / Robert Simon

35. Oral Tradition as Commitment in Modern African Poetry / Richard Bampoh-Addo

36. The Masked Snap, The Snapped Mask: Mask, Power, and Betrayal in African Cultures / Aderonke Adesola Adesanya

37. Caribbean Orality / Hanetha Vete-Congolo

38. The Re-invention of Myths, Legends, Panegyrics and Folktales in the Afro-Latin-American Diaspora / Felix Ayoh'Omidire

39. Zora Neale Hurst on: Retrieving Folk Memory in Mules and Men / Joseph Mclaren

pt. IV Orality, Technology, and Popular Culture

40. Orality, Media, and Information Technology / Kole Odutola

41. Orality and Information Communication Technology / Tunde Adegbola

42. Orality and Advertisement: Swahili Proverbs in Mobile Phone Service Ads in Tanzania / Charles Bwenge

43. Reinventing Oral Traditions Through Arts and Technology / Oyewole Oyeniyi

44. De-Territorializing Lyrical Performances via Digital Culture / Abubakar Aliyu Liman

45. Orality and Technology: Transforming Traditional Songs to Popular Music / Rosaleen Oabona Brankie Nhlekisana

46. Performance of Folklore on Television: New Vistas in African Folklore Renditions / Rose A. Opondo

47. Orality, Cinema, Film, and Video / Henry O. Unuajohwofia

pt. V Oral Tradition, Folklore, and Education

48. Restaging Oral Narrative in Civic Education / Kimingichi Wabende

49. Orality and Early Childhood Education / Damola Adesina

50. Teaching Folklore and Oral Traditions: The Folktale Medium as Pedagogy / Michael Oladejo Afolayan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9783030555160

303055516X

OCLC:

1198094230

Publisher Number:

99987131372