Oral Literary Performance in Africa: Beyond Text (Routledge African Studies)

By: Nduka Otiono and Chiji Akọma

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Synopsis: 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 globalization; 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 280 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781000397536
Related ISBNs:: 9780367482145, 9781003111887, 9780367630195
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 06/01/21
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Nduka Otiono and Chiji Ak
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts, Communication
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Nduka Otiono
Edited by:: Chiji Akọma