Understanding Oral Literature
Title | Understanding Oral Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Austin Bukenya |
Publisher | University of Nairobi Press |
Pages | 118 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
This latest contribution of the Kenya Oral Literature Association to explorations in oral literature is multi-disciplinary in approach. It includes a wide-ranging selection of papers from twelve Kenyan literary scholars, linguists, educationists, material culture specialists, and historians. The central questions addressed are why oral literature should be taught, what should be included, and how it should be taught. Amongst the topics covered are translation problems, understanding proverbs, oral narrative as discourse, the use of audio visual aids in teaching, general and the politics of control, images of women in African oral literature, the relationship with material culture, and oral literature as part of oral traditions.
Oral Literature in the Digital Age
Title | Oral Literature in the Digital Age PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Turin |
Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1909254304 |
Thanks to ever-greater digital connectivity, interest in oral traditions has grown beyond that of researcher and research subject to include a widening pool of global users. When new publics consume, manipulate and connect with field recordings and digital cultural archives, their involvement raises important practical and ethical questions. This volume explores the political repercussions of studying marginalised languages; the role of online tools in ensuring responsible access to sensitive cultural materials; and ways of ensuring that when digital documents are created, they are not fossilised as a consequence of being archived. Fieldwork reports by linguists and anthropologists in three continents provide concrete examples of overcoming barriers -- ethical, practical and conceptual -- in digital documentation projects. Oral Literature In The Digital Age is an essential guide and handbook for ethnographers, field linguists, community activists, curators, archivists, librarians, and all who connect with indigenous communities in order to document and preserve oral traditions.
Oral Literature in Africa
Title | Oral Literature in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth Finnegan |
Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
Pages | 614 |
Release | 2012-09 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1906924708 |
Ruth Finnegan's Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fieldwork, the study traces the history of storytelling across the continent of Africa. This revised edition makes Finnegan's ground-breaking research available to the next generation of scholars. It includes a new introduction, additional images and an updated bibliography, as well as its original chapters on poetry, prose, "drum language" and drama, and an overview of the social, linguistic and historical background of oral literature in Africa. This book is the first volume in the World Oral Literature Series, an ongoing collaboration between OBP and World Oral Literature Project. A free online archive of recordings and photographs that Finnegan made during her fieldwork in the late 1960s is hosted by the World Oral Literature Project (http: //www.oralliterature.org/collections/rfinnegan001.html) and can also be accessed from publisher's website.
Understanding Oral Literature
Title | Understanding Oral Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Austin Bukenya |
Publisher | University of Nairobi Press |
Pages | 124 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
This latest contribution of the Kenya Oral Literature Association to explorations in oral literature is multi-disciplinary in approach. It includes a wide-ranging selection of papers from twelve Kenyan literary scholars, linguists, educationists, material culture specialists, and historians. The central questions addressed are why oral literature should be taught, what should be included, and how it should be taught. Amongst the topics covered are translation problems, understanding proverbs, oral narrative as discourse, the use of audio visual aids in teaching, general and the politics of control, images of women in African oral literature, the relationship with material culture, and oral literature as part of oral traditions.
How to Read an Oral Poem
Title | How to Read an Oral Poem PDF eBook |
Author | John Miles Foley |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780252070822 |
Drawing on many examples including an American slam poet, a Tibetan paper-singer, a South African praise-poet, and an ancient Greek bard (Homer) the author shows that although oral poetry predates writing it continues to be a vital culture-making and communications tool. Based on research on epics, folktales, lyrics, laments, charms, etc.--Back cover.
The Oral and Beyond
Title | The Oral and Beyond PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth H. Finnegan |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780226249728 |
Ruth Finnegan examines the verbal arts in Africa and looks at whether the image of Africa as the 'oral' continent stands up to a more comparative and critical approach to 'orality' and performance.
Teaching Oral Literature
Title | Teaching Oral Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Masheti Masinjila |
Publisher | |
Pages | 120 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Folk literature |
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