Ethnosensitive dimensions of African oral literature : Igbo perspectives / edited by Afam Ebeogu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ebeogu, Afam, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folk literature, Igbo--History and criticism.

Folk literature, Igbo.

Igbo literature--History and criticism.

Igbo literature.

Oral tradition--Nigeria.

Oral tradition.

Nigeria.

Physical Description:

xx, 451 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

Firsty edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : African Heritage Press, 2017.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE INTRODUCTIONS

ch. One Old Wines, New Bottles, What Connoisseur?: Dimensions of Contemporary Nigerian "Oral Literature" / Afam Ebeogu

ch. Two Text and Context of African Oral Performance / Isaac Udo

ch. Three Flexibility of Oral Art in Relation to Modern African Society / F.U. Okoh

pt. TWO THE POETIC GENRES

ch. Four The Motif of Praise in the African Oral Tradition / Chinwe Nwizu

ch. Five Of Progress and Distortions: A Pattern in the Panegyric Ethos in Igbo Life and Culture / Afam Ebeogu

ch. Six The Content, Form and Performance of African Oral Elegies / Chinwe Nwizu

ch. Seven Satire in Traditional African Oral Poetry: The Edda Igbo Example / Francis Chima

ch. Eight Poetry of Occasion I: The Feminist Temperament in Igbo Birth Songs / Afam Ebeogu

ch. Nine Poetry of Occasion II: The World of the Lullaby (The Igbo Example) / Afam Ebeogu

pt. THREE THE PROSE GENRES

ch. Ten The African Oral Narratives: The Folktale / Francis Chima

ch. Eleven The Dead Can Bite: Continuity in the Legend of the Visiting Dead in a Nigerian Igbo Community / Afam Ebeogu

pt. FOUR THE DRAMA GENRES

ch. Twelve Negotiating the Hegemonic: Ritual and Mythological Recuperation in Irobi's Drama and the Soyinkan Model / Isidore Diala

ch. Thirteen A Type of Popular Secular Theatre: The Dramaturgy and Rhetoric of Oral Advertisement of Medical Products in Nigeria / Afam Ebeogu

pt. FIVE THE RHETORICAL GENRES

ch. Fourteen Rhetorical Genres of African Oral Literature: The Idiom, Puzzle, Tong twister and Pun / Ugochukwu Ogbonnaya

ch. Fifteen Proverb Yield in the Igbo Field: Why Are We So Blest? / J.O.J. Nwachukwu-Agbada

ch. Sixteen Njakiri, The Quintessence of the Traditional Igbo Sense of Satire / Afam Ebeogu

pt. SIX ACROSS THE GENRES

ch. Seventeen The Role of Women in Three Epics: A Feminist Reading of Sundiata, The Ozidi Saga and The Mwindo Epic / Chinyere Nwahunanya

ch. Eighteen Essential Stylistic Features of Oral Literature / G.I.N. Emezue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

194072919X

9781940729190

OCLC:

999542170

Publisher Number:

99989206921