Oral literary performance in Africa : beyond text / edited by Nduka Otiono and Chiji Akọma.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Otiono, Nduka, 1964- editor.

Ako̥ma, Chiji, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Series:

Routledge African studies ; 43.

Routledge African studies ; 43

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folk literature, African--History and criticism.

Folk literature, African.

Oral tradition--Africa.

Oral tradition.

Africa.

Oral interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 280 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Nduka Otiono is Associate Professor and Graduate Program Supervisor at the Institute of African Studies, Carleton University. He is the author and co-editor of several books of creative writing and academic research including Polyvocal Bob Dylan: Music, Performance, Literature (2019) and Wreaths for a Wayfarer (2020). Chiji Akọma is Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Literatures with joint appointments in the Department of English and the Department of Global Interdisciplinary Studies at Villanova University. He is the author Folklore in New World Black Fiction: Writing and the Oral Traditional Aesthetics (2007).

Contents:

Introduction : a heritage of African oral literary performance studies / Nduka Otiono and Chiji Akọma

Elfrieda Binga's Berseba : constructing history and identity in a rural Namibian village / Hein Willemse

"The crocodile's wife" : content and communication strategy in a tale of transformations / Ernst R. Wendland

"The aged, the infirm and the effeminate" : rhetorical strategies in election rally songs from Nigeria and Lesotho / Chris Dunton

Orality, masculinities and narrative strategies in The Arabian nights / Nduka Otiono

Translation of African oral narrative-performances to the written word / Harold Scheub

Asiyefunzwa na wazazi hufunzwa na mzuka : Swahili supernatural homiletics in an age of promiscuity / Aaron Rosenberg

History, Mofolo's Chaka, and the postcolonial "bastard" / Obiwu

Globalization of sango : Wole Soyinka's adaptation of Oedipus at Colonus / Femi Euba

African verbal arts online : intermediality and "technauriture" / Daniela Merolla

Writer-reader interaction in newspaper serial writing in Tanzania : the transformation of an oral story telling mode / Uta Reuster-Jahn

The manipulation of verbal folklore genres in mass media communication / Rosaleen O.B. Nhlekisana

Go Fetisa Lekoalo/beyond literature : orality, poetry and music in post-apartheid spoken word poetry / Raphael d'Abdon

Isidore Okpewho : an intellectual portrait / Abiola Irele

In praise of counter-hegemony : Okpewho and the other alternative discourse in African oral literature / James Tar Tsaaior

Isidore Okpewho : scholarship, imaginative writing, and the assertion of the African sensibility / J.O.J. Nwachukwu-Agbada

Choosing two sides equally : an interview with Isidore Okpewho / Chiji Akọma.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 24, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Oral literary performance in Africa

ISBN:

9781003111887

1003111882

9781000397536

100039753X

9781000397499

1000397491

Publisher Number:

40030692276

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