Power, Marginality and African Oral Literature
Title | Power, Marginality and African Oral Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Graham Furniss |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2008-12-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780521087940 |
African oral literature, like other forms of popular culture, is not merely a form of entertainment but a medium for commenting on contemporary social and political events. It can also be a significant agent of change capable of directing, provoking, preventing, overturning, and recasting social reality. The contributors to this collection are anthropologists, linguists, historians, and ethnomusicologists, who present fresh material on oral literature to paint a lively picture of current real life situations in Africa.
Power, Marginality and Oral Literature
Title | Power, Marginality and Oral Literature PDF eBook |
Author | University of London. Centre of African Studies |
Publisher | |
Pages | 600 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Africa |
ISBN |
Orality
Title | Orality PDF eBook |
Author | Graham Furniss |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 201 |
Release | 2004-09-21 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0230510116 |
Oral communication is quite different in its spontaneity and communicative power from textual and visual communication. Culturally-bounded expectations of ways of speaking and individual creativity provide the spark that can ignite revolution or calm the soul. This book explores, from a cross-cultural perspective, the centrality of orality in the ideological processes that dominate public discourse, providing a counterbalance to the debates that foreground literacy and the power of written communication.
Power, Marginality and African Oral Literature
Title | Power, Marginality and African Oral Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Graham Furniss |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2008-12-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780521087940 |
African oral literature, like other forms of popular culture, is not merely a form of entertainment but a medium for commenting on contemporary social and political events. It can also be a significant agent of change capable of directing, provoking, preventing, overturning, and recasting social reality. The contributors to this collection are anthropologists, linguists, historians, and ethnomusicologists, who present fresh material on oral literature to paint a lively picture of current real life situations in Africa.
African Oral Literature
Title | African Oral Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Russell Kaschula |
Publisher | New Africa Books |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781919876078 |
Throughout Africa, oral literature is flourishing, though it is perceived by some as anachronistic to the modern world. This work refutes this idea in its entirety by presenting 22 chapters, which firmly place the study of oral literature within contemporary African existence. The study analyzes how oral literature relates to media, music, technology, text, gender, religion, power, politics and globalization.
Oral Literary Performance in Africa
Title | Oral Literary Performance in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Nduka Otiono |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 213 |
Release | 2021-05-31 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 100039753X |
This book delivers an admirably comprehensive and rigorous analysis of African oral literatures and performance. Gathering insights from distinguished scholars in the field, the book provides a range of contemporary interdisciplinary perspectives in the study of oral literature and its transformations in everyday life, fiction, poetry, popular culture, and postcolonial politics. Topics discussed include folklore and folklife; oral performance and masculinities; intermediated orality, modern transformations, and globalisation; orality and mass media; spoken word and imaginative writing. The book also addresses research methodologies and the thematic and theoretical trajectories of scholars of African oral literatures, looking back to the trailblazing legacies of Ruth Finnegan, Harold Scheub, and Isidore Okpewho. Ambitious in scope and incisive in its analysis, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of African literatures and oral performance as well as to general readers interested in the dynamics of cultural production.
The Power of Performance
Title | The Power of Performance PDF eBook |
Author | Annekie Joubert |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 512 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9783110179989 |
Disc characteristics: DVD Region Universal.